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Re: Detecting new mail in mbox format



Hi,

* Cameron Simpson wrote:

> I find mutt doesn't notice new email in maildirs when I press '$'. Is
> there a common misconfiguration I might have?

'$' usually means to write changes of a mailbox out to disk. Mutt
doesn't even attempt to check for mail in that situation. It only checks
based on $mail_check (and $timeout when being idle) and when changing
folders. New mail detection in maildirs should be 100% reliable.

Rocco