[Replying to Mikko and Gero in the same message]
[Mikko first]
> I don't know, I get messages about incoming messages to any of my inboxes
> while viewing any folder. Have you told Mutt to expect incoming mail to
> other folders besides your incoming spool with the mailboxes command?
Hmm, I'll have to give this a shot. I only have mail coming to my incoming
spool, and mutt doesn't seem to let me know when I get mail if I'm in a
different folder. But I could be wrong about that. At any rate, that (to me) is
less important than being notified while I'm paging a message -- and I'm
assuming that isn't doable.
> That's not really doable, because while Mutt is in the background, it's
> suspended -- not running. Ie. no code is executing. So it can't really do
> anything because of that... This is true at least if you suspend it with
> ^Z. If you start a new shell *from* Mutt, ie. with !<enter>, then Mutt
> presumably could arrange to keep some process running while the shell is also
> running. However I suspect this wouldn't be trivial, at least.
What I meant here was that, after using ^Z to suspend mutt, doing: $ bg 1 to
run mutt in the background. In my experience, some programs will report what
they're doing when they're backgrounded (as opposed to suspended).
[snip]
> By removing all the colour statements from your .muttrc? (And the system
> Muttrc, if there are any there...) By default, Mutt doesn't use colours, so
> if you see any it's because the directives appear in either your own .muttrc
> or the system Muttrc.
Ah, this was the problem. I hadn't checked the system Muttrc.
> Hope this helps,
Very much so. Thanks!
> PS. Please use the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] when posting to the list,
> thanks.
Hmm. I replied to the digest, which has a Reply-To of the other address (I
don't recall what it is now) which I used. That should probably be fixed if
mutt.org is the expected address. At any rate, sorry.
[And now Gero]
> Please use the more generic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> address of the mailing
> list!
Oops. See above. Sorry again :-).
> You describe the functionality of a full featured mail alerting program.
> Such things exist, I vaguely remember some being mentioned on the mutt WWW
> pages. If you read your mail from a serial terminal, I think it is best to
> write an editor macro checking for mail.
I think that's probably a good solution. I'll look into it. Thanks.
> Yes. Set something like (assuming linebreak is a filter, and $tmpdir is a
> directory of your own)
>
> set editor='vim %s ; linebreak %s > %s~ ; mv %s~ %s'
>
> Hm, the %s thing appears to be bad documented in the manual ...
Ah, this will work quite well.
[snip]
Thanks for your help!
-dlc
-- Daniel Chetlin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
