Another problem: when i again open my account in webmail, all of the latest of the 582 mails which were unread are shown as 'read' after i had tried to receive them in mutt. But as i said, i can't find them in my mutt inbox.
Arvind > Hi all, > i am new to mutt and am trying to configure it for the first time. I've tried > setting up exim, getmail, procmail and mutt. When i send a mail, it reaches > the > destination alright, but i have problem receiving mails on my machine. > > Right now, there are 582 messages in my INBOX. When i try to invoke getmail > using 'G' (as configured in my .muttrc), it shows > > msg 1/582 (71943 bytes) delivered > . > . > . > > msg 581/582 (3410 bytes) delivered > msg 582/582 (3411 bytes) delivered > > But when i check in my inbox, there are only 417 messages. They are not > getting > updated beyond that. If i do 'ls ~/mail/inbox/cur | wc -l' that again shows > 417 > messages. Why are the other messages not being delivered? > > Thanks for your help > Regards, > Arvind > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Following is my ~/.getmail/getmailrc > > [retriever] > type = SimpleIMAPRetriever > server = mbu.iisc.ernet.in > username = arvind > password = mailpassword > move_on_delete = mail.deleted > > [destination] > type = MDA_external > path = /usr/bin/procmail > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > And following is my ~/.muttrc > > set realname="Arvind Marathe" > set from="Arvind Marathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" > set mbox_type=maildir > set mbox="~/mail/inbox/" > set spoolfile="~/mail/inbox/" > set folder="~/mail/" > set record="~/mail/sent/" > > set sort=threads > set sort_aux=last-date-received > > set include=yes > > macro index G "!getmail\n" "Invoke getmail" > macro pager G "!getmail\n" "Invoke getmail" > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
