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On Saturday, November 14 at 11:08 AM, quoth Robert Holtzman:
> When installed in debian lenny on my desktop box and on ubuntu hardy
> on my laptop it's fine. Hiting "c" shows the default mailbox to open
> as the next one with new mail. Better than alpine. Installed on
> ubuntu hardy, also on my desktop box, hitting "c" causes it to ask
> what mailbox to open and I have to bring up the list and scroll down
> to the one I want. Why the difference between ubuntu on the two
> different computers is driving me nuts.
Okay, let's look at this more specifically, on two machines,
<change-folder> suggests the next mailbox with new mail. On one, it
doesn't.
If you're always viewing locally stored messages (e.g. stored in your
home directories), and if your messages are stored in mbox format,
then it's possible that the difference is that your ubuntu desktop
mounts its drives with the "noatime" option, which messes up mutt's
detection of new mail. Thus, it doesn't suggest a mailbox for the
simple reason that it doesn't think any of them contain new mail.
If you're always viewing *remote* email (e.g. accessing your mail via
IMAP), then it's harder to guess why mailboxes with new mail aren't
being suggested.
In either case, you don't *have* to use the big list to find your
mailboxes. Mutt's change-folder prompt can work like the shell: you
can use tab completion to make it faster. For example, I keep my mutt
mailing list mail organized into INBOX/Subscribed/Mutt. I have $folder
set to "INBOX". Thus, whenever I want to read the mutt mailing list
email, I simply press c=S<TAB>M<TAB><ENTER> (where the things in
brackets are key-presses).
~Kyle
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