Nevermind, I answered my own question as soon as I wrote this, of course. My irc client turned out to be the culprit. It was displaying a message on new mail to the inbox. I was so sure my shell was doing it that I didn't think about other apps. Brian On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 02:55:35PM -0600, bigfoot wrote: > Hi all. I have the following mailboxes set up in my muttrc: > > mailboxes "!" =a2 =ph =zspam =mutt-users =zblocked =mac > > When I get new mail in any of the folders (from procmail) except my > inbox, the %b field in my status bar gets updated. Likewise, when I do > 'c' to change boxes, the new ones present themselves, except the inbox. > > Is the "!" correct for my mailboxes line? My other theory is that > something else, maybe bash, is touching my Mailbox. > > Thanks, > Brian > -- > The 21st century begins on January 1, 2001. -- The 21st century begins on January 1, 2001.