Still not able to figure this out. Does anyone else have any ideas? Thanks, James
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 12:07 PM, James Dunleavy <[email protected]> wrote: > HI Michael, > > Thanks for getting back to me. I changed the setting > > set nomark_old > > Still getting the message indicating that the message Flags may be > wrong. I am still not getting new mail in my INBOX folder. > > Any thoughts? > > Thanks, > James > > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Michael Kjorling <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On 20 Dec 2008 10:43 -0500, by [email protected] (James Dunleavy): >> > However I am still getting the same error message "Mailbox was >> > externally modified. Flags may be wrong." >> >> This is not an error message, it is an informational message that is >> displayed when mutt detects (you guessed it) that the mailbox was >> modified by some external process. For example, a program that >> downloads new mail outside of mutt would cause that message to appear, >> and maybe new mail getting added to a remote IMAP mailbox would >> trigger the same detection code. >> >> If, when this happens, you want to be certain that the flags displayed >> are accurate, you can reload the mailbox. I suggest unsetting >> mark_old, then simply <change-folder> to the special folder "^" >> (caret), meaning "current mailbox". >> >> -- >> Michael Kjörling .. [email protected] .. http://michael.kjorling.se >> * ..... No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings ..... * >> * ENCRYPTED email preferred -- OpenPGP key ID: 0x 758F8749 BDE9ADA6 * >> * ASCII Ribbon Campaign: Against HTML mail, proprietary attachments * >> >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iD8DBQFJTRQGdY+HSb3praYRArmVAKCakSIcX+ZrQeDQtb18wM1FtGAUJQCeImhO >> XZVinG0MTesAasJvcpl+6iI= >> =7J58 >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >
