[Gllug] Mutt

[Xander D Harkness]

On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 01:32:12PM +0100, Thom May wrote:
> * Xander D Harkness (xander at harkness.co.uk) wrote :
> > I have the following line in my .muttrc:
> > set mail_check=2                # how often to poll for new mail
> > 
> > However mutt does not seem to reliably check and advise my of new mail.  I am used to pine where as soon as the spool file is touched it will shout at me.  
> > 
> > I am not trying to start a holy war but was wondering if there was something that I was missing.  I only seem to get notified of new mail as I move between mailboxes which is not great when it sits in the background while I am doing other work :-)
> > 
> Well, I have a few points:
> are 'set beep_new' and 'set check_new' in your muttrc?
> also, what is 'timeout' set to?
Check_new was not set (and was not even commented out as an option in the
demo file.

Time_out was not set, it was commented out, I have changed it to 30 seconds


Kind regards
Xander
> 
> -Thom
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