* Rocco Rutte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-12-10 11:21:32 +0100]: > Hi, > > * Marco wrote: > >> I've just noticed that the number is actually updated on the mailboxes >> if I do the following: say I have two mailboxes A,B,C. > > :) > >> If I enter A, read some new messages and then press y,the number is not >> decrased.If then I enter B and read some messages and then again press >> y, the number of A is *now* correctly decreased. >> So I must visit some *other* mailboxes in order to have the number of >> messages in another mailbox correctly updated ? This is a strange >> behaviour. > > Not exactly I think, though I'm not the IMAP expert. AFAIK the numbers > are correct according to mailbox polling (minus some bugs that may be > open in that direction) _except_ for the currently selected folder. It > doesn't totally relate to the problem, but when you're in folder A you > have $status_format to tell you plenty of details about messages counts > for the current forder. Why would you want to use the browser for that? > >> Am I not well understand the meaning of $timeout ?? > > If counts for other mailboxes are fine, nothing is wrong. $timeout and > mail polling often causes quite some confusion, $timeout doesn't maybe > do what you think it does. Please read: > > http://dev.mutt.org/doc/manual.html#handling-folders > Ok it's a bit clearer now: the link explains the "normal" behaviour.
I've hand-compiled the latest dev release(1.5.18) of mutt and it seems to work as expected: the mailboxes view is updated correctly now (i.d. whenever I return to it numbers of new mails are decreased correctly if I've read some). I wish use the browser (or mailboxes view) for that because I think it's a good resume of what's going on on my mailboxes.So having a live update of new messages even in this view would be expected and very useful from my point of view.(e.g. I could leave this view and quickly view what's going on - instead of keeping doing "exec check-new"). By the way from what manual says,I should be able to view the number of mailboxes which contain new messages in the status line when in index mode: well I am again stopped with a problem: even if I am there, and my mailboxes view shows mailboxes with new messages, in the status line %b keep stay empty.(value 0). Is this a bug, isn't it ? thank you again >> The mailboxes view is either a menus or in an interactive prompt ??? > > It's a menu, the manual would have answered that, too. Prompts are only > those places where you can enter something in the last line of your > screen. A menu is has funtions, allows keys to be rebound and be > customly formatted. > > Rocco > -- Marco Vittorini Orgeas
