mutt/procmail mailbox modification times

[Todd Slater]

On 12/3/05, David Hart <ubuntu at tonix.org> wrote:
<snip>
> But thankfully, (big sigh), I've found what the problem was.  I was
> running the Beagle search deamon on the Breezy boxes that I checked.
> Beagle (making use of, I believe, the inotify patches in the kernel)
> was indexing the mails as fast as they were being delivered.
>
> I've now stopped Beagle indexing my mail folder and Mutt works again
> :) Shame to loose indexing of mails though :(  Does anyone have any
> ideas to work around it (apart from not using Mutt :)
>
> Thanks to both of you who replied.

Did you build beagle or customize your kernel? I believe on the ubuntu
beagle page it was specifically recommended not to use the inotify
patch. Unless something drastic has changed from hoary to breezy, I
can't imagine inotify is built into the kernel. Wouldn't be the first
time I was wrong, though.

Here I'm using a fresh install of breezy and I don't have any problem
with my fetchmail/postfix/mutt maildir setup. I build mutt from source
for the trash patch.

As far as indexing my  mails with beagle, I do have that working
without modifying times or read status. I just added my Maildirs as
roots to beagle and it works pretty well. I haven't figured out how to
get beagle to use the subject in the search results, instead it uses
the file name.

Todd