On (14:01 05/02/13), James Griffin <jmz.grif...@kode5.net> put forth the
proposition:
--> David Woodfall <d...@dawoodfall.net> [2013-02-05 13:31:30 +0000]:
<snip>
>BTW, when you say you get no new mail notification, what is it
>exactly you are expecting? mutt is set to check mailboxes for new
>mail every 5 seconds, and then a little message appears at the
>bottom to notify you - is this what you are referring to? Or when
>you press 'y' to view your folders, are you expecting to see 'N'
>preceding the folders with new mail? Is this happening at the moment?
When I'm in a folder I see the new mail arrive. That's fine. When I'm
outside the folder, in the main folder list, I would like to see N and
also all the other attributes set in $folder_format like it does for
local mail:
Nov 03 2011 O2
Jul 16 10:53 Trash
Jun 08 16:05 bbc
Jun 08 18:07 N bills
Jun 15 11:39 bin
Nov 03 2011 blueyonder
Mar 13 12:36 chas
Jun 14 20:14 cjs
Nov 03 2011 coop
Nov 03 2011 cron
Jan 01 2012 delivery
Instead all I see are the names of the folders.
So all you see are the folder names - no metadata at all, such as
dates, times, flags? If this is the case you probably need to look
at your $folder_format; this is mine:
set folder_format="%N %3C %d %2l (%5s) %f"
You may also want to look at your $index_format and $status_format.
Refer to man 5 muttrc for details on the printf-like sequences to
use; you'll find them under index_format in the man page.
I haven't changed these since I switched to imap:
set pager_format="%S [%C] %n (%l) %s"
set index_format="%4C %Z %a %[!%d/%m/%y] %-17.17F %s"
set folder_format="%d %N %f"
