On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 03:29:35PM -0500, David DeSimone wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > If mutt is running, and I receive new email, mutt doesn't add the
> > message to the index list until I hit a key.
>
> Mutt has a $timeout variable that tells how often it will stop waiting
> for a keypress from you, while in the index screen, and then go check
> for mail. So if it's set to, say, 30.. then Mutt will wait 30 seconds
> for you to press a key, and then go check new mail, and update the
> index. If you press a key sooner than that, then Mutt will notice the
> mail sooner, but it should always notice eventually, unless $timeout is
> set to 0.
I'd read about timeout, and thought that I had it set to 60 seconds... turns
out it was still set to the default 600 seconds. After adding that to .muttrc
it works perfectly.
Thanks!
