Re: Detecting new mail in mbox format

[Wolf Wiegand <wolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Grant,

Grant Edwards wrote:

>  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.

I am using this to check for new mail on an IMAP server:

 bind index G imap-fetch-mail
 bind pager G imap-fetch-mail

I usually use a heavily patched version of mutt (1.5.18), but this should 
work with a regular build as well.


Cheers,

Wolf
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