On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 09:22:49PM -0300, Leonardo Caldas wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 06:33:17PM +0100, Steve S wrote: > > Hi > > > > I'm new to mutt, so this question my have been asked before (I found > > nothing on > > the web/in the wiki etc.). In my muttrc I have > > > > bind browser n check-new > > > > which works ok. I hit `n` manually from time to time to see if there is new > > mail. Is it possible to do that automatically in the background (ala cron)? > > > > s. > > Here I run "fetchmail -d 180", which puts a fetchmail proccess into > daemon mode and rerun it each 180 sec period. >
I'm doing that too, with getmail and a cronjob. The problem is not that mail doesn't download to my machine, but that mutt, if * it is open all the time * showing the file browser (when invoked with `mutt -y`) * no key is pressed doesn't show the 'N' flag for folders (mailboxes) which have new mail after $timeout seconds as it should (it should, right? :). It does that only if I a) go to some mailbox and then back to the browser (which is the event "a key is pressed" and mutt checks for new mail if I understand correctly) b) invoke the <check-new> function manually. s.
