On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 11:04:02PM -0500, David Rock wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 10:41:07PM -0400, Wade A. Mosely wrote:
> >
> > The only problem I have with this is that the nice little message
> > telling me I have new mail in any newly created mailboxes isn't active
> > until the next time I startup Mutt (or :source .muttrc).
> >
>
> If you are usng bash, you can have the shell tell you about new mail.
>
> from the bash manpage:
> MAILPATH
> A colon-separated list of file names to be checked
> for mail. The message to be printed when mail
> arrives in a particular file may be specified by
> separating the file name from the message with a
> `?'. When used in the text of the message, $_
> expands to the name of the current mailfile. Exam
> ple:
> MAILPATH='/var/mail/bfox?"You have
> mail":~/shell-mail?"$_ has mail!"'
> Bash supplies a default value for this variable,
> but the location of the user mail files that it
> uses is system dependent (e.g., /var/mail/$USER).
>
If I may butt-in folks :), I tried setting the MAILPATH in
~/.bash_profile as in
MAILPATH='/var/mail/hgf3:~/Mail/IN.mutt-users?"You have mutt mail."'
but nothing happened. The ~/IN.mutt-users mailbox contains all new
mails.
Any comments/ideas on this?
Thanks.
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