On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 04:59:11PM +0200, Toby Cubitt wrote: > I use maildir for all my mailboxes, except the system mailbox in > /var/spool/mail/<user> which receives mail from local processes such as > cron, and which is in mbox format. > > Mutt seems to detect new mail in the system mbox fine (at least, the > mailbox is marked as having new mail in the sidebar - I'm using the > sidebar patch.) However, for this solitary mbox mailbox, the > <next-unread-mailbox> command doesn't work. It works fine for all the > other maildir mailboxes. > > I've tried both with and without the check_mbox_size option enabled, to > no effect. I'm running Linux with /var on a separate filesystem, and /var > is mounted with the relatime option (which, as I understand it, should > mean that check_mbox_size is unnecessary). > > Does anyone have any idea why <next-unread-mailbox> doesn't work for this > one particular mailbox, even though mutt does seem to be detecting new > mail to it, and the command works for all other mailboxes?
No ideas on this? Is anyone else experiencing similar problems? Is there any additional information I could give that would be helpful? Toby -- Dr T. S. Cubitt Mathematics and Quantum Information group Department of Mathematics Complutense University Madrid, Spain email: ts...@cantab.net web: www.dr-qubit.org
