Re: not detecting new mail in MailDir format?
On 26Apr2009 18:50, I wrote:
| | Strange. This works for me like a charm and has always worked. As soon
| | as I'm in a mailbox that gets new mail due to me fetching it, mutt
| | nearly immediately displays it and resorts the index every $timeout
| | seconds (since for me $timeout is lower than $mail_check).
| |
| | What's your value of $timeout?
|
| I hadn't set it, so I presume it is 600 seconds. And quite frankly that
| may be longer enough for me to never notice new mail. I've just set it
| to 5, and will try the experiment again.
|
| Any downsides to low timeout values? Interruption race conditions or
| other issues?
Hmm. Still no joy. I copied a message into it from my mutt folder.
Nothing. Went in with another mutt. Message visible (though not new).
Marked it new. Synced. No joy.
I do have header_cache enabled.
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