On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 21:23:11 +0000, Adam M. Costello wrote:
> David DeSimone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > For me, Mutt checks for mail whenever I press any key in the index.
> > Is this not what you want?
>
> That sounds great. I didn't know this was happening (it's not
> documented). I thought it was only using the mail_check timeout.
Here is my understanding of when mail checking is done:
At every key press and after a keyboard timeout (see the "timeout"
variable) Mutt checks if it should check for new mail now. It then
decices to check for new mail if there have passed "mail_check"
seconds or more since the last check for new mail.
The sync-mailbox function will not per se force a check for new
mail. Only if some changes in the mailbox state are to be written,
Mutt first checks if the mailbox have changed.
Regards,
- Byrial
