On 27.03.16 21:05, Erik Christiansen wrote: > That's not what happens here, I hit 'c' and mutt immediately offers the > mailbox with new mail which appears highest in the (one or more) > "mailboxes" lines in my .muttrc.
Jon, if mutt isn't detecting new mail in the delivery mailboxes, then it may be necessary to: set check_mbox_size # Set only if new mail detection is unreliable # or doesn't work. > If the use-case _must_ be "NOT empty", then just use the mailbox file > format, rather than maildir. IIRC, a mailbox file from which all mails > have been deleted, is also deleted. A non-exsistent file can hardly be > listed by 'y'. On reflection, that'd need: set save_empty=no # So empty mailboxes disappear. Erik