On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 10:31:10AM -0400, Hardy Merrill wrote:
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-> Charles Curley [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
-> > On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 03:21:38PM -0400, Hardy Merrill wrote:
-> > -> Is it possible to use Mutt with xbiff?
-> > ->
-> > -> I'm a newbie to Mutt, and am trying to use Mutt with xbiff,
-> > -> and what happens is, my xbiff notification happens when I
-> > -> get a new message, but then as soon as Mutt recognizes that
-> > -> there's a new message, it retrieves(?) it and my xbiff
-> > -> notification goes off - making xbiff pretty useless.
-> > ->
-> > -> Am I doing something wrong(or not doing something right)?
-> >
-> > You are doing things right. Xbiff will notify you if you have mail at the
-> > moment in a given file. I use procmail, so I have xbiff watch my input
-> > file, not my spool file. However, if I have mutt running, mutt picks up
-> > the new email. It will be marked with an N for new in the status
-> > column. Just check your inbox with mutt from time to time.
->
->
-> So there's no way to have mutt retrieve mail ONLY when I want
-> it to? Seems like if you have mutt running all the time, then
-> xbiff really doesn't do you any good - do you only run mutt
-> when you want to retrieve your new mail? Or do you just have
-> mutt running all the time, and just look at the "N" for new
-> messages to let you know you have new mail?
Xbiff, set to watch your main input file ("xbiff -file ~/Mail/in &"), will
ring its bell and put the flag up on incoming mail. Only after you have
read the new mail does the flag goes down. At least, that's what I'm
seeing here.
So xbiff is useful: it beeps on new mail, and is more visible than mutt's
"new mail" notice.
Also, xbiff watches the given file all the time, so that if you are
looking at another mail file, xbiff still works.
And xbiff is a better candidate for "sticky" than a mutt xterm.
If there is a way to turn off mutt's autochecking, I don't know of it. But
check the manual for that. But you don't need to turn off
autochecking. xbiff reports new mail even after mutt reads it in.
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