On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 09:20:08AM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote: > The following explanation is based on general knowledge and observation > of mutt's behavior, not on any actual knowledge of mutt's internals. > > When mutt finishes executing a function or command in response to user > input from the keyboard, it checks for new mail if it has been longer > than 'mail_check' seconds since the last time it checked. So if you are > actively using mutt, it will check periodically for new mail, the period > being about 'mail_check' seconds. >
I believe there are are plans for a timeout-hook in mutt. -Andy
