On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 00:46:04 +0000, Adam M. Costello wrote:
> Byrial Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > 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.
Mutt will always check tthhee ccuurrrreenntt ooppeenn
mmaaiillbbooxx for new mail at
every keypress in the index. It uses the "mail_check" variable to
decide if it aallssoo should check all the mailboxes specified by the
"mailboxes" command.
And yes, I think that the manual should be more clear about this topic,
but I don't volunteer to improve it. -- I am more comfortable using C
than English. :)
Regards,
- Byrial
