Mutt Help

[Peter Abrahamsen]

Do you have a line like
set mail_check=10
in your .muttrc?

Peter

On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:52:49AM -0800, Michael J. Lu wrote:
> Evan,
> 
> That works for me, but let's say I leave the window open in the list of mailboxes...the listing won't update automagically to poll for new messages. I have to manually force refresh it by having mutt reload that screen.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike Lu
> 
> --
> 
> On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:05:34AM -0800, martine at cs.washington.edu wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 08:15:14AM -0800, Michael J. Lu wrote:
> > > I have all the mailboxes that I want to check for new mail entered
> > > into the .muttrc, and they're working great when they're displayed in
> > > a listing. But for some reason, the listing won't auto-update--it
> > > won't automatically check for the presense of new mail without me
> > > hitting tab a couple of times to refresh the screen.o
> > 
> > I hit "c" and by default it wants to move to the next mailbox with
> > unread mail.  If I then hit "?", <tab>, I get the whole list of
> > mailboxes with "N" by the mailboxes with new messages.
> > 
> > Which of these isn't happening for you?
> > 
> > -- 
> >       Evan Martin
> > martine at cs.washington.edu
> >   http://neugierig.org
> 

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