Re: mail box format (was Re: Unidentified subject!)
On Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 08:14:39PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> Maildir, by design, puts messages in a special directory that the
> mail user agent is supposed to check periodically for new messages.
> Mutt won't take them out of that directory except when you expunge deleted
> messages (and in some cases it won't even do it then till you've read
> the messages). This means that if you have 600 new messages that it will
> continuously re-scan those 600 messages every time a new message comes in.
There's also biff, xbiff, and other mail notification mechanisms.
I use tcsh's built in new mail checker, for example.
Hamish
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