HI Michael, Thanks for getting back to me. I changed the setting
set nomark_old Still getting the message indicating that the message Flags may be wrong. I am still not getting new mail in my INBOX folder. Any thoughts? Thanks, James On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Michael Kjorling <mich...@kjorling.com> wrote: > > On 20 Dec 2008 10:43 -0500, by purpletensp...@gmail.com (James Dunleavy): > > However I am still getting the same error message "Mailbox was > > externally modified. Flags may be wrong." > > This is not an error message, it is an informational message that is > displayed when mutt detects (you guessed it) that the mailbox was > modified by some external process. For example, a program that > downloads new mail outside of mutt would cause that message to appear, > and maybe new mail getting added to a remote IMAP mailbox would > trigger the same detection code. > > If, when this happens, you want to be certain that the flags displayed > are accurate, you can reload the mailbox. I suggest unsetting > mark_old, then simply <change-folder> to the special folder "^" > (caret), meaning "current mailbox". > > -- > Michael Kjörling .. mich...@kjorling.se .. http://michael.kjorling.se > * ..... No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings ..... * > * ENCRYPTED email preferred -- OpenPGP key ID: 0x 758F8749 BDE9ADA6 * > * ASCII Ribbon Campaign: Against HTML mail, proprietary attachments * > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFJTRQGdY+HSb3praYRArmVAKCakSIcX+ZrQeDQtb18wM1FtGAUJQCeImhO > XZVinG0MTesAasJvcpl+6iI= > =7J58 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
