On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 09:40:06AM +0000, Andreas Wessel wrote: > In my .muttrc I have the following entry: > > mailboxes +"hticker-`date +%y-%m`" oops, I didn't notice that.. remember though that the `+` mark indicates that mutt should find it in the dir you got `folder` set as. for instance, if you have set folder=~/Mail, and then put something like +"hticker-`date +%y-%m`" then mutt will look in ~/Mail/hticker-`date +%y-%m`.. > > Anyway mutt doesn't tell me if new mail arrives into that folder. > Why not? Am I missing something here? as I said.. in the sample muttrc there's examples.. for instance, you could put mailboxes "echo $HOME/hticker-`date +%y-%m`" or mailboxes "ls $HOME/hticker-`date +%y-%m`" and use the ! wildcard to filter out those you don't want checked for new mail. Endless possibilities... -- Motto of the Electrical Engineer: Working computer hardware is a lot like an erect penis: it stays up as long as you don't fuck with it.