Byrial Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
Okay, that's what I thought originally.
> 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.
Thanks, I never would have gotten that from the manual.
But I've just done some experiments, and changing mail_check doesn't
seem to have any effect. Mutt notices new mail within a few seconds of
any keypress, even if mail_check and timeout are both 300.
AMC
