On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 04:52:40PM +0100, duck wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 16:25, Paul E Condon wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 11:50:58AM +0530, Ashish Ariga wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 17:42, Brian Potkin wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:31:01PM +0530, Ashish Ariga wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > Today is the first time I typed the words "mutt". I have been using
> > >
> > > 1. Periodic checking for pop mail ("fetch-mail") doesn't work in spite
> > > of pop_* being set. Should I set spoolfile to pop:// instead ?
> > >
> > configure fetchmail separately from mutt, and setup mutt to look for
> > incoming mail in the standard location: /var/spool/mail/<username> ,
> > and configure it to run periodically. I use fetchmailconf to do this,
> > but fetchmailconf does nasty things under sarge on my system, be warned
> > if you are using sarge (and maybe sid, not know, i'm to timid to try)
> >
> > other ways may work as well or better, but my impression is that mutt is
> > supposed to be a simple mail reader, not a means of controling other
> > aspects of the mail delivery chain.
>
> Alternatively you could bind the f12 key to fetchmail as I have:
> macro index <f12> "!fetchmail\n"
It is already bound to "G" in mutt. I was hoping it would do it periodically...
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