Re: Email programs that work.
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CJ van den Berg wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 06:51:39AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
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>> 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.
Thanks. Just set mine to 120.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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