Solved:Mutt’s not seeing new emails!
For the past couple of weeks, mutt hasn’t been seeing any new emails coming in. I have the regular setup: fetchmail handing off the emails to procmail and in my .muttrc I have several mailboxes configured.
After sending myself numerous emails and watching the [acm]times with the stat command, I found the problem: Google Desktop!
Google Desktop was indexing my mailboxes as soon as they were being written to thereby changing the mtime and atime which is how mutt determines whether new email is waiting.
Solution: either turn off Google Desktop (a rather severe solution, if you ask me) or, better yet, tell GD to not index your mailboxes folder via the Preferences.
BTW, I’m under the impression that if you use maildir format, you won’t have this problem (I use mbox format). I’ve yet to test this theory.
Tags: mutt new emails
