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Re: Not getting any new mail



HI Michael,

Thanks for getting back to me.  I changed the setting

set nomark_old  

Still getting the message indicating that the message Flags may be
wrong.  I am still not getting new mail in my INBOX folder.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
James

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Michael Kjorling <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 20 Dec 2008 10:43 -0500, by purpletenspeed@xxxxxxxxx (James Dunleavy):
> > However I am still getting the same error message "Mailbox was
> > externally modified.  Flags may be wrong."
>
> This is not an error message, it is an informational message that is
> displayed when mutt detects (you guessed it) that the mailbox was
> modified by some external process. For example, a program that
> downloads new mail outside of mutt would cause that message to appear,
> and maybe new mail getting added to a remote IMAP mailbox would
> trigger the same detection code.
>
> If, when this happens, you want to be certain that the flags displayed
> are accurate, you can reload the mailbox. I suggest unsetting
> mark_old, then simply <change-folder> to the special folder "^"
> (caret), meaning "current mailbox".
>
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