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Re: automatically check for new mail

On Tue 29.Jan'08 at 23:10:54 +0100, Steve S wrote:

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:29:55PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:

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).


I have a similar configuration, and now that I have taken a better look,
I basically have the same problem. I haven't noticed it since I use the
sidebar patch. Anyway, I wonder if there are some consistency issues
between the values stored in timeout and mail_check that could be
causing the problem.