On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 06:02:07PM -0400, Brett Sanger wrote: > so the beep_new says whether to beep on new mail....but how do I get it to > update the screen without an action? I like to have my client open and > glance at the screen now and then to see if anything has shown up. > > From my tests so far, the screen updates only when I press a key.
I'm not sure what the problem is, but my guess is that setting 'timeout' to something shorter than the default value of 600 seconds might fix it. I have in my muttrc: set timeout=10 This is the time that mutt waits for a key to be pressed before checking for new mail. HTH, Gary -- Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Spokane, Washington, USA http://www.spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/ |