On 2009-04-25, Rocco Rutte <[email protected]> wrote: > * Cameron Simpson wrote: > >> I find mutt doesn't notice new email in maildirs when I press >> '$'. Is there a common misconfiguration I might have? > > '$' usually means to write changes of a mailbox out to disk. > Mutt doesn't even attempt to check for mail in that situation. > It only checks based on $mail_check (and $timeout when being > idle) and when changing folders. New mail detection in > maildirs should be 100% reliable.
I too expected "$" to check for new mail in the current folder, but quickly realized it doesn't. I've often wished there was a simple way to check for new mail. I usually just "change folders" to the current folder to get mutt to check for new mail. It's a bit clumsy, but it works. -- Grant
