Re: Cycling through folders
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 05:13:36PM +0900, henry nelson wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:43:12AM -0500, Allister MacLeod wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:33:48AM +0900, henry nelson wrote:
> > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 11:13:02PM -0500, Allister MacLeod wrote:
> > > > 'c' is bound to change-folder by default, right? When I use that
> > > > function in the index, the very first thing that happens is it gives
> > > > me a prompt on the bottom line "Open mailbox ('?' for list):"... No
> > > > listing is displayed until I type something further. For either a
> > > Just checking to be sure I understand: IF there is still an unopened
> > > mailbox in your $folder, one of those is displayed after the prompt, and
> > > you only need to hit [Enter] if you want to open that mailbox, correct?
> >
> > Hm.. In my case there never seems to be anything but a single blank
> > space after the "Open mailbox ...:" prompt. I think there is a
>
> Hmmm.. :) In my case, it works great _once_ through the cycle of nine boxes
> I have defined in "mailboxes". If I press 'c' it will give me another choice
> of mailbox after the "Open mailbox ...:" prompt. However, once I've read all
> the boxes, then even if new mail has come into one of them, the "Open mailbox
> ...:" prompt is empty. Thus, I have to press '?' if I want to make a final
> check that all of the boxes are empty. (What I hadn't read in the manual was
> about the use of [Tab] to list only $mailboxes. For my style of reading mail,
> '?' => [Tab] may work out the best, but I'm giving your 'C' macro serious
> consideration.)
This means that mutt for some reason does not believe that you have new
mail in your incoming boxes. What is that reason I can't say. You have
to watch carefully access-time on your mbox or presence of files in
special directory if it is maildir. After all. I know that it works
perfectly for me with the set of mboxes :)
Andrei