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Re: Detecting new mail in mbox format



On 2009-04-25, Nicolas KOWALSKI <niko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Grant Edwards <grante@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>>  2) I just tried it, and it does nothing. It's bound to '.'.
>>     When I hit '.' absolutely nothing happens. No IMAP commands
>>     are sent to server to check either the current folder or
>>     the folders in the "mailboxes" list.
>
> What are your settings for mail_check and timeout?

mail_check is 90
timeout is 15

> In my case (with a dovecot Imap server), I am using:
>
> set mail_check=30
> set timeout=60
>
> It works well.

"It" being hitting the '.' key to check for new mail in the
current folder?

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