On 20.03.13 13:14, Chris Green wrote: > What is supposed to happen in the following scenario:- > > I'm viewing my incoming mail (inbox), looking at the index view in mutt. > > Some new mail arrives, delivered by procmail/python script/whatever > to the inbox. > > Is there supposed to be some mechanism whereby mutt recognises that all > that has happened is that new mail has been appended to the mbox?
The manual has a brief description, in section: "10. New Mail Detection" (If mutt is well set up, that's on <F1>, but I figure you know that.) > At present I *always* get the "Mailbox was externally modified. Flags > may be wrong." message. That happens here, if I have two mutts open concurrently. My guess is that your python isn't satisfying mutt's access/modification time requirements. Erik -- Mollison's Bureaucracy Hypothesis: If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented it wasn't worth doing.
