I noticed I hadn't been seeing my (zsh) shell's "You have new mail" notification
for awhile, so I sent myself a few mails from another ISP account and discovered
that mail notification is definitely not happening.
But it does work if I *edit an existing message* in my inbox. (since, In mutt,
if you edit a message, it's marked for deletion and a new one is created.)
I can close vim, quit mutt, and the "You have new mail" message appears
below the shell prompt. (Or I can close vim & switch to another terminal
where the shell prompt is displayed, press RETURN and then see the new mail
message.)
init file settings:
biff n
mesg y
export MAILPATH=~/.mailspool/rj/
export MAILCHECK=5
I use maildirs, and this may be the key to the problem. I tried setting:
export MAILPATH=~/.mailspool/rj/new/
since the zsh manpage has this:
mailpath <S> <Z> (MAILPATH <S>)
An array (colon-separated list) of filenames to
check for new mail. [...] If an element is a directory
instead of a file the shell will recursively check every
file in every subdirectory of the element.
but that made no change. All clues appreciated.
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