* CB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-04-14 17:29 +0200:
> Currently, I can find new mail when I press "c" and I look at the modify
> date/time of the list of folders.  Another mutt user told me that when I
> receive new mail, the bottom status line should tell me that I have
> received new mail.  It does not.  I suspect this is because I run
> procmail in daemon mode, so mutt cannot know (unless it was constantly
> checking the timestamp).  Is this correct?

You might want to try one:

  set status_format="%f (%s) [%M/%m] [N=%n,*=%t,boxN=%b]%> %P"
  set timeout=10

"%b" is the setting you're looking for, "timeout" controls the update
interval.

> Also, when I press the "c" key, he told me I should get a list of
> folders with new mail.  Instead, I get the entire list.  

Did you set "mailboxes", like in

  mailboxes ! +mutt-users +onemoremailbox +anothermailbox

maybe in combination with

  subscribe mutt-users mutt-users@mutt\.org

Someone else mentioned earlier in this thread that you have to set
$folder and others before to make this work.

> I have it
> sorted reverse date, so I just use my thinking cap and figure out where
> the new messages are (that and a tail -f procmaillog in the next
> window).  But I would like to make it work the way he described.  Again,
> is running procmail as a daemon causing this to not work properly?

Not that I could think of. BTW sorting by threads is way better IMHO.

HTH

Andre Berger                                [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

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