On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 11:58:18PM +0100, Lee J . Moore (dis)graced my inbox with:
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 05:25:43PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote:
> > i have:
> >
> > mailboxes !
> > mailboxes `for file in ~/mail/*; do echo -n "$(basename $file)"; done`
> >
> > and this is apparently insufficient.
>
> If you had three mailboxes, say mail1 mail2 and mail3, wouldn't that
> piece of command line wizardry give the following output:
>
> mail1mail2mail3
>
> Instead of
>
> mail1
> mail2
> mail3
>
> ? I wonder whether this is why Mutt is getting confused. :) Although
> the script is there doubtless to serve as a timesaver if and when you add
> new mailboxes, try inserting the filenames manually until you fix it.
> That way, you *will* be notified of new mail. :)
That's true, I thought his script looks rather fishy, but even if he
fixed it he'd still have problems with mutt telling him where the new
mail is :)
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Rob 'Feztaa' Park
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