Re: Open folder only when there in new mail
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 08:13:10AM -0500, David Yitzchak Cohen wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 03:14:19AM EST, Gary Johnson wrote:
> > On 2004-02-21, romildo@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > > Is it possible to have
> > >
> > > $ mutt -f <folder>
> > >
> > > to open <folder> only if there is new mail
> > > in it? If there is no mail in <folder>,
> > > mutt should just quit. How to get this
> > > behaviour?
> >
> > >From the mutt(1) man page:
> >
> > OPTIONS
> > ...
> >
> > -z When used with -f, causes Mutt not to start if there are no
> > messages in the mailbox.
>
> He's looking to quit if there's no _new_ mail in the folder, unless I
> misread his OP.
David is right. If there isn't new messages in the folder, mutt
should quit immediatelly, even if the folder is not empty.
Any help?
Romildo