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Re: Detecting new mail in mbox format



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On Friday, April 24 at 03:33 PM, quoth Cameron Simpson:
>> But then, I also use Maildir instead of mbox, because it avoids 
>> lots of this kind of silliness (it's also a more well-defined 
>> mailbox format).
>
> I find mutt doesn't notice new email in maildirs when I press '$'. 
> Is there a common misconfiguration I might have? 

Hmmm, not that I'm aware of. Maildir should Just Work (all you need to 
do to detect new messages is check the contents of mailboxname/new/).

~Kyle
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