On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 at 01:29PM -0600, Dan 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'm guessing this is some sort of file access/modification time issue, > but I don't know what's the problem or how to fix it. Any suggestions? I figured out the problem: the filesystem somehow got mounted with the "noatime" option, so access times weren't being updated for /var/mail/dan. Mutt apparently compares the access and modified times to see if there's new mail. Easily fixed by editing /etc/fstab and doing # mount -o remount,atime / Dan -- Ceci n'est pas une .signature. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 191 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060321/4dc03fbf/attachment.pgp