On Dec 30 10:44, JB wrote: > Hi, > > I can confirm similar test results for mailx. > I have tested it on Fedora 14. > [...] > Conclusion: > On Linux, with file systems mounted with default mount option 'relatime', > on an encrypted file system (encfs) mailx deviates from conventional rules of > file times modifications. > This will cause some applications (like mutt mail client) that rely on mbox's > file times attributes to not work properly. Interesting to see that not only procmail is affected. > Corinna, > you have Red Hat's e-mail address, but I do not know if you are a dev or > a user. As far as Fedora is concerned I'm just a user. > We have an option to file Fedora Bugzilla bugs for procmail and mailx and let > the package maintainers take care of it. Today I built procmail from source to have a look. There's a Fedora-specific patch procmail-3.22-rhconfig.patch, which contains this hunk: @@ -91,14 +92,14 @@ restriction does not apply to the /etc/procmailrc and /etc/procmailrcs files) */ -#define NO_NFS_ATIME_HACK /* uncomment if you're definitely not using +/*#define NO_NFS_ATIME_HACK /* uncomment if you're definitely not using NFS mounted filesystems and can't afford procmail to sleep for 1 sec. before writing to an empty regular mailbox. This lets programs correctly judge whether there is unread mail present. procmail automatically suppresses this when it isn't needed or under heavy load. */ [...] So what this patch does is to disable the NFS hack for no apparent reason. This also breaks MBOX files on encfs. I built my own procmail with the NFS atime hack re-enabled and it fixes my problem. > What is your suggestion ? As for procmail, I generated a bugzilla entry https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666383 As for mailx, it doesn't have any Fedora-specific patch which might contribute to this problem so I'm not sure. This may be worth to be reported upstream, I guess. Corinna -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
