On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 10:24:04AM -0500, Dan Boger wrote: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 10:19:33AM -0500, Paul Brannan wrote: > > Pressing '$' does not appear to have any effect. As a test, I: > > a) send a message to myself > > b) return to my INBOX (which resides on an IMAP server) > > c) wait a while, then press '$' -- nothing happens > > d) quit mutt > > e) start mutt and return to my INBOX -- the message is there > > syncing doesn't delete anything on it's own... you have to delete the > message if you expect the sync to remove it from the mailbox. > > or am I misunderstanding you?
No, I'm not trying to delete the message. What I want to do is send a message to myself and refresh the mailbox, so that I can see the message in my mailbox before the next scheduled mail check. (In other words, I want to be able to check my mail at an arbitrary time, rather than at every mail_check interval). Paul