On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 11:34:23PM -0800, Akshay Hegde wrote:
Is this the expected behavior, or is this a bug?
This is expected behavior. Mutt only performs new mail checking in the
index. This prevents issues such as the message you are reading
disappearing, or the mailbox closing (for
Hello,
I'm in the process of migrating all my old mail to the maildir format
and restructuring my mail workflow in the process. Doing so, I ran into
the following problem.
I would like to know which of my mail folders have unread (new) messages
inside, and, AFAIU, that's what the mailboxes
I recently set up my mutt to work via IMAP, and now I notice that for the
first five seconds after I open mutt, I get the 2 boxes w/new mail (or,
sometimes, 1 boxes w/new mail) notification in the index status bar.
Then it disappears.
This occurs when there is no new mail in any of my mailboxes
Thanks for all your help, I'll check on the Cygwon list and see if
anyone else has this set-up working. It'll be something to compare
against if they do.
I'll post back here if/when I find anything else out.
Just to update this, that I got no response from the Cygwin list, so it's
Hi,
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:10:55AM +0200, Christoph Ludwig wrote:
[...]
However, that triggered two further questions:
1) Is there a way to define custom mailbox shortcuts so I don't have to type
in the full imaps URL every time I switch to a folder on the company server?
The only
Hi,
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 08:02:07PM +0200, Rocco Rutte wrote:
* Christoph Ludwig wrote:
imaps://company%2fchristoph%2fchristoph.lud...@example.com
mutt still complains that it cannot find host COMPANY.
This should work in hg tip with URL- and pine-syntax.
Thanks!
Regards
Hi,
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:15:43AM -0700, Brendan Cully wrote:
On Wednesday, 10 June 2009 at 13:32, Christoph Ludwig wrote:
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 05:47:09PM -0400, Paul Hoffman wrote:
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 06:51:15PM +0200, Christoph Ludwig wrote:
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at
Hi,
* Christoph Ludwig wrote:
1) Is there a way to define custom mailbox shortcuts so I don't have to type
in the full imaps URL every time I switch to a folder on the company server?
The only workaround I see after reading section 4.7 of the manual is to
define
a number of aliases
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 01:52:20PM +0200, Rocco Rutte wrote:
* Christoph Ludwig wrote:
1) Is there a way to define custom mailbox shortcuts so I don't have to
type
in the full imaps URL every time I switch to a folder on the company
server?
The only workaround I see after
Hi,
* Christoph Ludwig wrote:
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 01:52:20PM +0200, Rocco Rutte wrote:
[...]
So now I type =Abo.mutt-user or #Projects/someProject and mutt
automatically knows which folder on which server I refer to, no matter on
which server the current folder is. Do you see any issue
Hi,
* Christoph Ludwig wrote:
imaps://company%2fchristoph%2fchristoph.lud...@example.com
mutt still complains that it cannot find host COMPANY.
This should work in hg tip with URL- and pine-syntax.
Rocco
Hi,
* Brendan Cully wrote:
My vague recollection is that windows usernames are separated by
backslashes. How about
imaps://company\\christoph\\christoph.lud...@example.com/
(you may need to adjust the quoting a bit)
Do you have any idea why the code is parsing the URL, formats it to
Sorry, I did not pay attention and pressed 'r' instead of 'L'...
- Forwarded message from Christoph Ludwig lud...@fh-worms.de -
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:29:03 +0200
From: Christoph Ludwig lud...@fh-worms.de
To: Kyle Wheeler kyle-m...@memoryhole.net
Subject: Re: mutt new mail
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 05:47:09PM -0400, Paul Hoffman wrote:
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 06:51:15PM +0200, Christoph Ludwig wrote:
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 10:15:04AM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
On Tuesday, June 9 at 02:28 PM, quoth Chris:
I'm using mutt v1.5.19 to check mails in MS
Hi,
* Kyle Wheeler wrote:
I'm asking because I *think* mutt takes everything up to either a
semicolon or the last @ symbol as the username. For example, I put my
username in as u...@memoryhole.net@imap.memoryhole.net without
trouble. Granted, my username doesn't have slashes in it, but I
Hi,
* Christoph Ludwig wrote:
However, I have somewhat strange usernames. For instance, on one server in
the Windows domain COMPANY I have an account christoph that's associated
with the mailbox christoph.ludwig. Exchange expects me therefore to log on
with the IMAP username
Hi,
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 01:36:49PM +0200, Rocco Rutte wrote:
* Christoph Ludwig wrote:
However, I have somewhat strange usernames. For instance, on one server in
the Windows domain COMPANY I have an account christoph that's associated
with the mailbox christoph.ludwig. Exchange
On Wednesday, 10 June 2009 at 13:32, Christoph Ludwig wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 05:47:09PM -0400, Paul Hoffman wrote:
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 06:51:15PM +0200, Christoph Ludwig wrote:
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 10:15:04AM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
On Tuesday, June 9 at 02:28
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On Tuesday, June 9 at 02:28 PM, quoth Chris:
I'm using mutt v1.5.19 to check mails in MS Exchange IMAP folders. Is
there any way I could get mutt to notify me of new mails on arrival
on various IMAP folders?
Read the manual, look for the
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 10:15:04AM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
On Tuesday, June 9 at 02:28 PM, quoth Chris:
I'm using mutt v1.5.19 to check mails in MS Exchange IMAP folders. Is
there any way I could get mutt to notify me of new mails on arrival
on various IMAP folders?
Read the
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On Tuesday, June 9 at 06:51 PM, quoth Christoph Ludwig:
I am in a similar situation as Chris: I need to monitor several IMAP
mailboxes, some of them on Exchange server. I'd therefore need to
provide a list of imaps-URLs to the mailboxes
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 06:51:15PM +0200, Christoph Ludwig wrote:
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 10:15:04AM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
On Tuesday, June 9 at 02:28 PM, quoth Chris:
I'm using mutt v1.5.19 to check mails in MS Exchange IMAP folders. Is
there any way I could get mutt to notify me
I'm using mutt v1.5.19 to check mails in MS Exchange IMAP folders. Is
there any way I could get mutt to notify me of new mails on arrival on various
IMAP folders?
Thanks.
Hi,
* Adam Wellings wrote:
mail_check=5
timeout=30
TBH those settings come from someone else's muttrc.
These are default values and look okay. Does the problem persist even
after you switch folders? If so, I guess the only to find out who's to
be blamed is to try a non-managed mount.
Hello
These are default values and look okay. Does the problem persist even
Yes, I always have to go into individual folders to see new mail.
I am using an external method to see what new mail is coming in, but
it's not ideal.
after you switch folders? If so, I guess the only to find
Hi,
* Adam Wellings wrote:
The new mail is marked within the folders, eg if new mail arrives in
the current directory, it gets marked as new and mutt tells me it's
there. New mail in other directories is marked as new when I viist it,
but the directory is not marked, and none of the switch
Hi Rocco,
there. New mail in other directories is marked as new when I viist it,
but the directory is not marked, and none of the switch to dirs with
new mail commands work.
Then I suspect it doesn't get flagged with 'N' in the folder browser, too?
Sorry, yes that's what I meant. My
Hi,
* Adam Wellings wrote:
It would be helpful if you could use ls(1) to see what the filenames
look like.
Picking one mail folder at random, in the new directory they are all of
the format:
1234567890.1234_0.HOSTNAME
In the cur directory they are roughly of the format:
That all looks okay, i.e. it should work. What are your values of
$timeout and $mail_check? Maybe mutt just didn't check for new mail yet?
mail_check=5
timeout=30
TBH those settings come from someone else's muttrc.
cheers,
Adam
--
...one cannot be angry when one looks at a penguin.
Hello,
I'm running mutt on Cygwin (v. 1.5). I'm using the standard packages
version supplied by Cygwin, 1.4.2.2i. My mail directory is Maildir
mounted on a managed partition to cope with the naming convention.
My Windows system is XP.
My mailboxes command is supplied absolute paths:
find
Ken, et al --
...and then Ken Weingold said...
%
...
%
% I don't have a setting for mark_old at all. I see sometimes something
% flash about new mail, but the status bar never says anything, or
% moving the indicator bar or something makes it disappear. Could the
% server (Panix) be running
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002, David T-G wrote:
You may recall your own problems with this on your nfs-mounted mail spool
some time back. Another possibility is that the disk server's clock and
the login server's clock are not in sync.
Different server completely. :)
Thanks for the explanation,
* On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, John Iverson wrote:
The only known issue (afaik) about Mutt *not* reporting new
mail is when the user has unset mark_old in their
configuration. In this case a message that would ordinarily be
marked as old is still new, but won't be detected with the file
the name of the
folder, and not a new mail notification symbol.
You're saying that you do see a new mail indicator on Maildir
(i.e., IMAP) folders?
Maildir, but not IMAP (perhaps I misused a term somewhere).
No, you can use Maildir format when not using IMAP. I used to use local
Maildir format
Sven Guckes wrote:
* Ken Weingold [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-08-18 08:44]:
What would make mutt not report that there is new mail when there is?
Sometimes I will find that it indicates that there is
no new mail, yet when I change to some folders, there is.
i recall some problems about
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002, Michael Elkins wrote:
The only known issue (afaik) about Mutt *not* reporting new mail is
when the user has unset mark_old in their configuration. In this
case a message that would ordinarily be marked as old is still new,
but won't be detected with the file
* On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Michael Elkins wrote:
The only known issue (afaik) about Mutt *not* reporting new
mail is when the user has unset mark_old in their
configuration. In this case a message that would ordinarily be
marked as old is still new, but won't be detected with the file
new messages. But using the c command to switch folders only ever
shows the name of the folder, and not a new mail notification symbol.
You're saying that you do see a new mail indicator on Maildir (i.e., IMAP)
folders?
What would make mutt not report that there is new mail when there is?
Sometimes I will find that it indicates that there is no new mail, yet
when I change to some folders, there is.
Thanks.
-Ken
* Ken Weingold [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-08-18 08:44]:
What would make mutt not report that there is new mail when there is?
Sometimes I will find that it indicates that there is
no new mail, yet when I change to some folders, there is.
feature. i just haven't found out why. ;-)
i recall
On Sun, Aug 18, 2002, Sven Guckes wrote:
feature. i just haven't found out why. ;-)
Ack. :-/
i recall some problems about modification tims
vs the file system. and there were patches.
i suppose you can search through the messages
in the bug tracking system - but.. it's Sunday.
Yeah,
Andy Saxena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 02:27:42AM -0700, Will Yardley wrote:
do you have:
mailboxes +me +linux +other +mailboxes +here
in your .muttrc ?
Or:
mailboxes `echo $HOME/Mail/*'
Well, take a look a this:
mailboxes +debian-news +debian-security
thought would work with the N option.
Any ideas how to get the N new mail notification symbol to
be displayed
do you have:
mailboxes +me +linux +other +mailboxes +here
in your .muttrc ?
Or:
mailboxes `echo $HOME/Mail/*'
-Andy
new mail notification symbol to
be displayed
do you have:
mailboxes +me +linux +other +mailboxes +here
in your .muttrc ?
Or:
mailboxes `echo $HOME/Mail/*'
-Andy
--
~~~
~ Soeren Mindorf ~
~ Industriemeister der
One thing that I've always missed since I switched from pine to mutt
was pine's more verbose e-mail notification. Instead of just saying
New mail in this mailbox. it would say something like:
[New mail from Philip Mak re New mail notification ideas]
Also, pine checks for new mail when
Hi
Since changing to Maildir format, I have noticed some odd behaviour - if
I am in a folder while it receives new mail, I don't get notified. If I
change to another folder, I immediately get notified of any new mail in
the first folder.
What have I missed?
A.
--
Homepage:
* Ailbhe Leamy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
Since changing to Maildir format, I have noticed some odd behaviour - if
I am in a folder while it receives new mail, I don't get notified. If I
change to another folder, I immediately get notified of any new mail in
the first folder.
What
Hi,
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 René [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed into the ether:
[-- snip --]
But, however, when I am _not_ in my friends folder, and send mail to
that friend, Mutt thinks that I have new mail in that folder. Of
course (, Rob, ;-) Mutt is right in thinking that, but it does confuse
me
* Prahlad Vaidyanathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [23-11-2001 15:28]:
| [-- snip --]
| But, however, when I am _not_ in my friends folder, and send mail to
| that friend, Mutt thinks that I have new mail in that folder. Of
| course (, Rob, ;-) Mutt is right in thinking that, but it does confuse
| me
Hi all,
this probably has come up, but I couldn't find it. I looked for it,
honestly!! ;-)
When I send mail to a particular friend, I set the fcc folder to the
folder in which procmail delivers mail from this friend. This folder
is listed in my 'mailboxes' directive.
But, however, when I am
Ren? Clerc wrote:
When I send mail to a particular friend, I set the fcc folder to the
folder in which procmail delivers mail from this friend. This folder
is listed in my 'mailboxes' directive.
But, however, when I am _not_ in my friends folder, and send mail to
that friend, Mutt thinks
* Will Yardley [EMAIL PROTECTED] [21-11-2001 20:28]:
| When I send mail to a particular friend, I set the fcc folder to the
| folder in which procmail delivers mail from this friend. This folder
| is listed in my 'mailboxes' directive.
|
| But, however, when I am _not_ in my friends
On 11-21 20:55, René Clerc wrote:
* Will Yardley [EMAIL PROTECTED] [21-11-2001 20:28]:
| When I send mail to a particular friend, I set the fcc folder to the
| folder in which procmail delivers mail from this friend. This folder
| is listed in my 'mailboxes' directive.
|
| But,
quoting Mark Hill:
I've added these mailboxes to ~/.muttrc like so:
#mailboxes
mailboxes !
mailboxes =blackbox
Again, thanks for all the help, I've learnt a few good mailboxes tricks. :)
if you're not sure, full path to the mailbox can be used, like this:
mailboxes
Hi Mark,
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 01:59:34AM +0100, Mark Hill wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to get mutt to tell me if there is any new mail in an mbox folder.
AFAIK, new messages come up when I go to change in to another dir, but instead mutt
says 'mailboxes [0]' (or something like that.)
Mark Hill mutt [19/08/01 01:59 +0100]:
#mailboxes
mailboxes !
mailboxes =blackbox
Try
mailboxes `echo $HOME/Mail/*`
-suresh
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001, Mark Hill wrote:
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 07:26:11AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Mark Hill mutt [19/08/01 01:59 +0100]:
#mailboxes
mailboxes !
mailboxes =blackbox
Try
mailboxes `echo $HOME/Mail/*`
-suresh
Okay, I'm not too sure if
Is it possible to get a new mail notification while Mutt is in its
pager (while reading a message)? Right now I only get notified while
in index view.
--
Wille
PGP signature
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 08:48:23AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Jeffrey A Schoolcraft proclaimed on mutt-users that:
sorry, forgot the !
mailboxes ! `for file in ~/mail/*; do echo -n "+$(basename $file) "; done`
instead - try
mailboxes `echo $HOME/Mail/*`
it works just fine
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 08:48:23AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Jeffrey A Schoolcraft proclaimed on mutt-users that:
sorry, forgot the !
mailboxes ! `for file in ~/mail/*; do echo -n "+$(basename $file) "; done`
instead - try
mailboxes `echo $HOME/Mail/*`
it works just fine
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 09:29:53AM +0100, Fredrik Jagenheim wrote:
I just wish there would be a way to unspecify mailboxes after doing
something like that. Like 'SPAM' and 'outbox'. I usually end up doing
hairy sed scripts, when something like;
mailboxes `echo $HOME/Mail/*`
mailboxes -SPAM
Dave Pearson proclaimed on mutt-users that:
Where not wanted is the list of boxes you don't want. eg:
,
| grep -Ev "SPAM|outbox"
`
simple - and brilliant :)
-suresh
--
Suresh Ramasubramanian + Wallopus Malletus Indigenensis
mallet @ cluestick.org + Lumber Cartel of
Dear all...
I have this entry in my .muttrc:
mailboxes ! =dsniff ="@freebsd.org" ="@mutt.org" ="pau-mikro" \
="@postfix.org" ="@redhat.com" "@securityfocus.com" "libwww" "vpopmail"
Unfortunately not all mailboxes notify me when new mail arrives. Only the
first 7!?!
Is there some limitation of
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 01:30:34AM +, Dave Pearson wrote:
Could it be pure coincidence that it's only the first seven that are full
paths (well, shortcuts to full paths) while the rest aren't? :-)
I don't quite get your point.
All those mailboxes reside in $HOME/mail. None of them are
you might want to do something like this then:
mailboxes `for file in ~/mail/*; do echo -n "+$(basename $file) "; done`
works for me.
Jeff
sorry, forgot the !
mailboxes ! `for file in ~/mail/*; do echo -n "+$(basename $file) "; done`
Jeffrey A Schoolcraft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
you might want to do something like this then:
mailboxes `for file in ~/mail/*; do echo -n "+$(basename $file) "; done`
works for me.
Jeff
Jeffrey A Schoolcraft proclaimed on mutt-users that:
sorry, forgot the !
mailboxes ! `for file in ~/mail/*; do echo -n "+$(basename $file) "; done`
instead - try
mailboxes `echo $HOME/Mail/*`
it works just fine :)
--suresh
--
Suresh Ramasubramanian + Wallopus Malletus
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 02:21:13PM -0600, David DeSimone wrote:
If you use Maildir folders, Mutt will always be able to easily tell if
there is new mail. If this is feasible for you, you should go ahead and
switch to Maildir format.
Thanks a lot!
I have found a perl script to convert mbox 2
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 11:57:35 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have found a perl script to convert mbox 2 maildir and I
will try to convert my old mail (if you know of any other
conversion tool, please let me know).
I know one called Mutt. :-)
Open the mailbox to be converted, and type
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 02:21:13PM -0600, David DeSimone wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mutt does notify me when I run it (in the new=x, folders with new
mail). The problem is that when I change to that folder and leave
without having read all the new mail, mutt will
I am using procmail to automatically deliver part of my
incoming mail in certain mailboxes. I want mutt to
notify me when any of these mailboxes get new mail,
so I have added
mailbox my_mailbox
to my .muttrc.
Mutt does notify me when I run it (in the new=x,
folders with new mail). The
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Wed, 09 Feb 2000:
Does anyone have know how could I get mutt to
do what I want? Should I change the mailbox
format (MMDF, MH, Maildir) to do this?
I use Maildir, and saving "old new" emails works fine, and Mutt reports
new mail in these folders
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mutt does notify me when I run it (in the new=x, folders with new
mail). The problem is that when I change to that folder and leave
without having read all the new mail, mutt will tell me that I have no
folders with new mail.
I think this is a
What's involved with setting up new mail notification? Here's
what I have in my .muttrc:
set mail_check=10
mailboxes ! `echo $HOME/Mail/*`
It doesn't seem to notice new mail in my spoolfile. If I'm
inside the spoolfile, the new mail shows up when I hit a key. Is
it possible to get
John R Sheets [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It doesn't seem to notice new mail in my spoolfile. If I'm
inside the spoolfile, the new mail shows up when I hit a key. Is
it possible to get it to show up without hitting the keyboard?
There is a setting called "timeout" that tells Mutt how long to
On Thursday, 18 November 1999 at 16:42, John P . Looney wrote:
I'm using 1.1.1, with an IMAP server. I've noticed that the "new mail"
notification isn't 100%.
By "new mail", I mean the messages on the bottom line, and the fact that
when I want to change folder
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