Re: Not getting any new mail
Still not able to figure this out. Does anyone else have any ideas?
Thanks,
James
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 12:07 PM, James Dunleavy
<purpletenspeed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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".
>>
>> --
>> Michael Kjörling .. michael@xxxxxxxxxxx .. http://michael.kjorling.se
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