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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.