Steven --

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% 
% Ahoy.
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% Typicall I use mutt in an IMAP setting and am just now using it at
% home (they finally removed the chain and ball from my cubicle).

Welcome home :-)


% 
% I'm using fetchmail to yank the mail and procmail to process it.  That
% part is going quite well.  I see mail accretion in my defined folders.

Good.


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% I have defined in my .muttrc
% 
% mailboxes dominion mutt-users perl-beginner texasindecision xhtml-l webhitdata
% 
% And thus should be noted by mutt 'these boxes get new mail'

Well, yeah, but this has come up before.


% 
...
% Yet even when I have new mail i have no 'new mail' indication.
% 
% I think i have it set up according to that beauty of modern
% documentation, the Mutt manual...
% 
% Am I missing something?

I suspect that there is some other process that is looking at your mail
files and thus updating the access time -- and thereby messing up mutt's
idea of whether or not you have new mail.  Without getting into the
old argument (you can find it quite a few times in the archives, I'm
sure), I'll simply note that mutt considers a folder to have new mail
if its modification time (when the mail was dumped onto the end of it)
is later than its access time (the last time anything, presumably mutt,
looked at it).  You can compare the two values with ls -l and ls -lu
(or by using the --time= argument in the GNU version) and set the two
values with touch -m and touch -a as well; updating the modification time
(or backdating the access time) of a file should then get it to show new
mail in our mutt browser, while then updating the access time or even just
using cat to dump the file to /dev/null should make it clear the newness.


% 
% BTW:  Is there any way to colorize the 'folder browser' view?  That'd
% be very handy.

Not AFAIK but, then again, I don't use colors.


% 
% Thanks,

HTH & HAND


% 
% Steven


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