On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 06:51:39AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Steve Lamb wrote: > > CJ van den Berg wrote: > >> Yes, it will. If it doesn't, then your filesystem is probably mounted > >> noatime. Mutt uses the filesystem's atime to determine whether mbox files > >> contain new mail. > > > > Uh, since mutt's main display never updated when I was on that screen the > > display never updated when new mail came in. I mean, real simple test and I > > just performed it to confirm. Start mutt, pressed y, sent myself mail. > > Waited 5 minutes, /var/mail/grey still does not show new mail. Meanwhile > > Thunderbird, in less than 1m, increased my new mail count in my "Inbox" from 4 > > to 5. In fact exiting that screen and entering it still didn't show new mail > > in /var/mail/grey. > > There's a .muttrc option to specify refresh rate. Was mentioned > somewhere in this big old thread. Maybe that's what you need. set timeout=n The default is 600 (10 minutes), which is pretty long. -- CJ van den Berg mailto:cj@vdbonline.com xmpp:cj@vdbonline.com
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