Linux, mutt, and NFS

[Matt McLeod]

I'm noticing something slightly weird (not to mention annoying)
with mutt on RH6, accessing mailboxes stored on a Solaris box.

mutt keeps thinking that there is new mail in folders where no
mail at all (let alone new mail!) exists.

Same version of mutt, same options, running on any number of
different Solaris machines, accessing the same mailboxes,
doesn't have this problem.

Any ideas?

(Yes, I've applied updates recently - as in Monday night. Running
a 2.2.10 kernel)

Matt

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[Matt McLeod]

Yea, it is written in the Book of Cyril
that Joel Baker did write:

>In article <slrn7r2e4...@assm04.epa.ericsson.se>, Matt McLeod wrote:
>> I'm noticing something slightly weird (not to mention annoying)
>> with mutt on RH6, accessing mailboxes stored on a Solaris box.
>>
>> mutt keeps thinking that there is new mail in folders where no
>> mail at all (let alone new mail!) exists.
>>
>> Same version of mutt, same options, running on any number of
>> different Solaris machines, accessing the same mailboxes,
>> doesn't have this problem.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> (Yes, I've applied updates recently - as in Monday night. Running
>> a 2.2.10 kernel)
>

>Silly question - are the servers time-synced? Timestamp offsets can
>cause all sorts of weirdness, I wouldn't be suprised if mutt tags the
>inbox as being "new" if the NFS server is ahead of the client box.

Yup. All the machines sync to the same box, including the Linux
machine exhibiting the weirdness.

Matt

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