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Re: How to deal with new mail?



On 02/15/08, Benjamin Buch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > To get mutt to check all of the mboxes that can have new mail in them, 
> > you have to list ALL of them in the mailboxes command. For example, if 
> > your procmail script can deliver mail to "family", "friends", "mutt", 
> > and "work" folders, you would need a mailboxes line something like 
> > this:
> > 
> >      set folder="$HOME/mail"
> >      mailboxes =family =friends =mutt =work =
> >                ^       ^        ^     ^     ^-- $folder
> >                |       |        |     `-------- $folder/work
> >                |       |        `-------------- $folder/mutt
> >                |       `----------------------- $folder/friends
> >                `------------------------------- $folder/family
> > 
> > Then mutt will check all of those folders for new mail. They won't be 
> > displayed in the status-bar, but you will be notified of new mail just 
> > below the status bar. Also, as Vladimir said, you can press '.' 
> > (period) to get the list, or, after pressing 'c' to change folders, 
> > you can press '?' to show just the mailboxes that have new mail (this 
> > is known as the "buffy list").
> 
> I did set up my .muttrc now like this:
> 
> mailboxes /var/mail/benni =freunde =kassette =listmutt =lists =mbox
> =root =sent =uni

Try this:

set folder="/var/mail/benni"

mailboxes +freunde
mailboxes +kassette
mailboxes +listmutt
mailboxes +lists
mailboxes +mbox

-- 
respectfully,
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|                         Joseph | IT |
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