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Re: Detecting new mail in mbox format



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On Sunday, April 26 at 10:15 AM, quoth Rocco Rutte:
> Hmm, that's true. There's really no way to force new mail polling. I 
> think for mutt-ng I once hacked up a new option that would force a 
> full check together with buffy-list. Maybe we should add a new 
> function?
>
> The question is how much people read need this. To me polling for new 
> mail when I'm ready to read new mail would make more sense than a low 
> $mail_check value where you're not interested in new mail most of the 
> time.

That makes a lot of sense to me. Since I use IMAP, I often use 
<imap-fetch-mail>, which seems to simply force mutt to check for new 
messages. Having something that isn't IMAP-specific would be even 
better.

~Kyle
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