mutt/procmail mailbox modification times

[David Hart]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 03:53:10PM +0000, David Hart wrote:

> I've just switched back to using Mutt/Procmail having used Evolution
> since I upgraded to Breezy a month or so ago.
> 
> The problem I'm having is that the atime of the mailboxes is getting
> set along with the mtime when Procmail delivers mail.  Consequently
> Mutt can't see new mail in mailboxes (defined with Mutt's mailboxes
> command) when changing folders with the directory browser (although
> it finds it ok when you enter a folder that has new mail).

I've done a bit more testing to try to narrow this down.

I built procmail-3.22 from the source at procmail.org to see if
anything in the latest debian/ubuntu patches was causing a problem
but the problem is still there.

I've configured Mutt/Procmail on a virgin Breezy install to see if
it's anything that I've done on my laptop that's causing trouble -
still the same.

Finally, I reinstalled Hoary on a spare box and - everything works
perfectly.

So it seems there is a bug introduced with Breezy that breaks Mutt
with mbox mailboxes (I don't know whether it would affect maildir)
that doesn't seem to involve Procmail.

I'm surprised that with the number of Mutt users on this list that
nobody else has confirmed this yet as visiting two dozen or more
mailboxes to check for new mail makes Mutt virtually unusable.

I'm at a loss now where to look for the problem.  Can anyone confirm
or deny this or, better still, point me in the direction of a fix?

-- 
David Hart <ubuntu at tonix.org>