Re: automatically check for new mail

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Subject: Re: automatically check for new mail
From: Raffi Khatchadourian <khatchad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:19:59 +0000
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On Mon 28.Jan'08 at 18:33:17 +0100, Steve S wrote:

I'm new to mutt, so this question my have been asked before (I found nothing on

the web/in the wiki etc.). In my muttrc I have

bind  browser n check-new

which works ok. I hit `n` manually from time to time to see if there is new
mail. Is it possible to do that automatically in the background (ala cron)?


Are you using mailboxes? If so, this should be done automatically.

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