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Re: Detecting new mail in mbox format



Hi,

* Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Sunday, April 26 at 10:15 AM, quoth Rocco Rutte:

> > 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.

Yeah. However, we're still in feature freeze. Adding a function that
polls by force would be easy, but I don't know if I'm allowed to push
that.

Rocco