Re: automatically check for new mail
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 10:28:19PM +0000, Raffi Khatchadourian wrote:
> On Tue 29.Jan'08 at 23:10:54 +0100, Steve S wrote:
>> 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.
Hmm, so can other people confirm this or does nearly everybody have mutt
working as expected?
s.