Re: mail_check_recent does not work with homespool

[Michael Elkins <me@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 04:43:38PM +0200, Christian Ebert wrote:
> The behaviour for my spoolfile is exactly as if I had the default
> setting:
>
> mail_check_recent=no
>
> i.e. new mail is detected once, but not after I visited the spool
> and left the message(s) unread.

If you want to be notified about new mail that you left unread, then you 
should unset mail_check_recent.  With mail_check_recent, you will only be 
notified if _additional_ new mail is received.

Or are you saying that you are not notified when additional new mail arrives?

> I also have:
>
> set mark_old=no
> set move=ask-yes
>
> so I have to confirm that a new message stays in the spool.

me