On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 02:30:51PM -0600, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 01:29:20PM -0600, Dan Drake wrote: > > I just moved my mail over to a new Debian box, and now Mutt always > > thinks I have new mail in my mailspool (/var/mail/dan). If I'm in, say, > > my tclug folder, after reading a message, Mutt will say I have new mail > > in my inbox -- but there's not. > > I've got the opposite problem - frequently mutt doesn't realize that > there is new mail in say my tclug folder when there is. If I manually > switch to the folder, the mail is new. I'm running Mutt 1.4.1i on a > RHEL 4 rebuild. I am not sure if these answers either of you, but it is worth a try. I know that I have run into both of these problems myself, and at least one of the times I fiexed it by changes which "biff" variant I used.