Quoth Frederick Page on Fri, Feb 19, 1999:
> if
> $header_X-Loop contains exim-users@???
> then
> save $home/mail/exim-user
> finish
> endif
>
> However: if I open the mailbox exim-user with Mutt, it does not
> recognize new messages, since the file has not been touched by Exim.
What do you mean by touching? Exim just writes into this file,
and I had no problem with that (using Exim and Mutt). Messages
marked as "new" are the messages which had not been read (it's
determined by the "Status:" header in the mbox).
Does mutt recognize that there are new messages in exim-user? If
it doesn't, you must check the time on your mailserver and on the
machine you're reading mail on, and send mail so it arrives to
this mailbox and then check modification and access times on the
file.
When you open the mailbox, does mutt recognize the new messages
inside? If it doesn't, you must check the "Status:" headers in
the mailbox. On new messages, the Status header is absent.
> Do you know any way to touch the file (pipe-command also passes
> the message to the piped command) or something else to convince Mutt,
> that there are new messages in the mailbox?
Wwwhat? Do you know how MTA and MUAs work?
Vadik.
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