* Dan Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08-04-08 09:10]: > > Right, thanks to the people who told me to stop using mutt to retrieve > email. I've now got getmail retrieving from the imap server, and > procmail sorting incoming mail into different maildirs. So, as you > predicted, that's much better. I've got a few questions at the moment: > > 1. I've aliased mutt to mutt -y. That start up screen is really helpful, but > > 1a) How do I return to it after I've entered a particular maildir? At > the moment I'm hitting q and restarting mutt...
Man, you *really* need to have a look at the fine mutt manual. "c", <change-folder> typing a "?" will present you with a screen of commonly used commands > 1b) Sometimes maildirs have an 'N' next to them to indicate new mail, > but at other times there is no 'N' despite having new mail. Can anyone > enlighten me about this? 'N' does mean "new mail" but does *not* mean "unread mail". Once you have seen that new mail is there, you have accessed the folder/file containing the mail and the system "access" date/time has changed. "N" is defined by the system access date/time/ > 2. I've set up a key to run getmail: > > macro generic G \ > <shell-escape>'getmail'<enter> \ > 'Run getmail' > > But it's a bit ugly to have to do this to check for new mail; mutt > temporarily disappears then I get a message saying 'press any key to > continue'. It all seems a bit 1980s. Do you have recommendations for a > nice way to get getmail to check for mail constantly in the > background, and mutt to recognise when getmail has deposited new mail? I do not use getmail, but fetchmail which I run as a daemon. As you have surmized below, either method is fine. It is about choice :^). > I can think of some ways (cron job, backgrounded daemon-like process), > but I thought there might be a standard solution. above. Standard is whichever suits you. AGAIN, please read the fine mutt manual. -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org
