Re: Detecting new mail in mbox format
On 24Apr2009 09:11, Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| 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/).
Ok, thanks. I'll do some stracing and start a new thread if I learn
anything.
Cheers,
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