Steve S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm doing that too, with getmail and a cronjob.
Nice to hear :). > 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`? The default for that is 10 minutes -- have you tried waiting that long to see if mutt identifies new mail? Charles -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Software, consulting, and services available at http://pyropus.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------------------
