On 2013-01-30 17:54:04 -0300, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: > On 2013-01-30 15:33:11 -0500, Patrice Levesque wrote: > > > > > My problem is that all Maildir folders are updated automatically when a > > > new email is received, but my Inbox doesn't show updates. To see new > > > email I have to quit mutt and re-open it. > > > > > > What I'm doing wrong?. > > > > See this entry from the FAQ, might provide you a hint or two: > > http://dev.mutt.org/trac/wiki/MuttFaq/Folder#Whyarenewflagsofmboxfolderswronginfolder-listview > > > > > > Ok, so, basically the recommended way is to convert my inbox to Maildir. > Now the question is how?. >
This was easy: 1) Convert /var/spool/mail/me to Maildir using mb2md -m 2) Redefined the INBOX variable in ~/.procmailrc to INBOX=$HOME/Maildir/.inbox/new # to store all incoming mail in that folder. 3) Added this fields to ~/.muttrc set timeout = 10 # mutt 'presses' (like) a key for you (while you're idle) # each x sec to trigger the thing below. set mail_check=5 # mutt checks for new emails on every keystroke # but not more often than once in 5 seconds. set spoolfile = "~/Maildir/.inbox" # mutt will open this folder at # startup. -- Leonardo M. Ramé http://leonardorame.blogspot.com