Re: WMMail.App + Mutt annoyances

[Chris Gray <cgray@nowonder.com>]

On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 04:13:23PM -0400, t.bedlam wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 12:23:16PM -0600, Alberto Brealey was only 
>    escaped alone to tell thee:
> 
> > thing is wmmail apparently changes something in the various mailboxes it
> > checks, tricking mutt into thinking they don't have any new mail, even
> > when they do. i want to know if someone has a solution for this problem,
> 
> mutt uses the file timestamps to test for newness; biff-like new mail
> checkers that do not reset time stamps confuse mutt (see manual.txt).
> Perhaps wmmail has an option you could set?

I hacked on wmmail for a while to see if I could fix this.  No luck.  It
does set the timestamp back, but that doesn't seem to help mutt.  Maybe
mutt checks something else, but I didn't have the patience to find out
what from its source.

> > also, how can i change the initial mailbox mutt chacks? (i thought it was
> > 'set mbox = ~/mail/mbox', but that does not do the trick).
> 
> set mbox sets your default mailbox for storing. When you have read msgs left
> in /var/spool/mail/yourname when you exit, mutt asks you if you want them
> moved there.
> 
> Aside from the order of the list following mailboxes=  I'm not sure there is
> a way not to open your mail spool first. Try adding a '!' into the mailboxes
> line. Bang, '!', is a symbol for /v/s/m/yourname in mutt.

Maybe more easily, set your EMAIL environment variable to point to
~/mail/mbox (export EMAIL="$HOME/mail/mbox" in your .bashrc).

Cheers,
Chris

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