-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, October 25 at 09:36 PM, quoth Erik Christiansen: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:03:24PM +0100, tchomby wrote: >> It's to solve the problem where you are subscribed to a large number >> of email lists, for example, and filter mail from each list into its >> own folder, then you don't want to have to open each folder just to >> see if there's anything new in it. What's the best solution in mutt? > > Dunno about best, but I've long been content with just pressing '.' for > an update of mailboxes with new mail. Granted, only the first 8 - 10 fit > on the status line, but they're in the priority order given in .muttrc. > It hardly matters if there's also mail in the 15th most interesting > list, if I have'nt yet looked in the 10 most important.
That's a good point. However, I do *occasionally* want to know what else is out there, even in folders that I don't always check all the time. Since mutt's IMAP browser is pretty much useless in this regard, I use MacBiff http://macbiff.sourceforge.net/, but you may find that there's some other version of biff or biff-like application that is useful for you. I know when my desktop was a Linux box, I really liked Gkrellm's mailbox checker. Check out the Replacements section: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biff ~Kyle - -- Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea---massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it. -- Gene Spafford -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Thank you for using encryption! iEYEARECAAYFAkkDKY8ACgkQBkIOoMqOI15dQgCgt8kG6GiNBZdtcxnkGdrtZiPS m30AoPdjxykUo2KUUXDz8k9k3Cu70HOQ =5oqz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
