On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 06:02:07PM -0400, Brett Sanger wrote:
> so the beep_new says whether to beep on new mail....but how do I get it to
> update the screen without an action? I like to have my client open and
> glance at the screen now and then to see if anything has shown up.
>
> From my tests so far, the screen updates only when I press a key.
I'm not sure what the problem is, but my guess is that setting 'timeout'
to something shorter than the default value of 600 seconds might fix it.
I have in my muttrc:
set timeout=10
This is the time that mutt waits for a key to be pressed before checking
for new mail.
HTH,
Gary
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