Re: automatically check for new mail
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:29:55PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> Steve S <elcorto@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The problem is not that mail doesn't download to my machine, but that mutt,
> > if
> >
> > * it is open all the time
> > * showing the file browser (when invoked with `mutt -y`)
> > * no key is pressed
> >
> > doesn't show the 'N' flag for folders (mailboxes) which have new mail after
> > $timeout seconds as it should (it should, right? :). It does that only if I
> >
> > a) go to some mailbox and then back to the browser (which is the event "a
> > key
> > is pressed" and mutt checks for new mail if I understand correctly)
> >
> > b) invoke the <check-new> function manually.
>
> Pardon me for being late to this discussion. Have you set `mail_check` to a
> non-default value in your .muttrc (or system-wide Muttrc) file? Or how about
> `timeout`? iThe default for that is 10 minutes -- have you tried waiting that
> long to see if mutt identifies new mail?
Default values are the ones mentioned in the manual: $timeout=600,
$mail_check=5. I played with them by setting them to small values for testing:
$timeout=10, $mail_check=5
or
$timeout=60, $mail_check=30
but the 'N' flag just won't appear automatically if the browser is focused all
the time.
Would it help posting my .muttrc? I suspect either a stupid newbie-related
misconfig or an issue with my Debian mutt version (since I saw they include
some patches on their own which are not in the official mutt tree).
s.