On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:29:55PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > Steve S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > Pardon me for being late to this discussion. Have you set `mail_check` to a > non-default value in your .muttrc (or system-wide Muttrc) file? Or how about > `timeout`? iThe default for that is 10 minutes -- have you tried waiting that > long to see if mutt identifies new mail?
Default values are the ones mentioned in the manual: $timeout=600, $mail_check=5. I played with them by setting them to small values for testing: $timeout=10, $mail_check=5 or $timeout=60, $mail_check=30 but the 'N' flag just won't appear automatically if the browser is focused all the time. Would it help posting my .muttrc? I suspect either a stupid newbie-related misconfig or an issue with my Debian mutt version (since I saw they include some patches on their own which are not in the official mutt tree). s.
