Hi all, I'm sure the one or the other of you also faced the problem that mutt enters conditions during which it does not check for new mails anymore. These are (for me): - viewing email (display-message) - composing (new/reply) Sometimes it happens, that I get distracted and forget mutt in those conditions or e.g. composing just takes a long time.
As I rely on mutt to check for new mails and then send a bell to its terminal, it happens that I miss new incoming (urgent) mails. The reason simply is, that mutt waits/sleeps until the compose editor returns. Or perhaps checking for new mails is only active on the index view. I know, this is my fault. I should be more attentive, but I think I read about an integration into a terminal multiplexer (screen or tmux). The idea was, that mutt opens a new window with the compose editor. Thus, the main mutt instance continues to run in the index-view and will be able to check for new mails. Before starting on it all on my own, I'd like to ask here, if you are familiar with this and if there is a configuration I might should have a look at. In the end, I'd like to contribute a wiki page which explains all that. Thanks, -- Bastian