On 20.03.13 14:11, Chris Green wrote: > What I want to know is:- > > Is it possible for a message to be delivered into an mbox that mutt > is looking at without provoking the ""Mailbox was externally > modified" message?
Yes. Here the message is "New mail in this mailbox." (Confirmed by sending myself an email while in !) > If the above is possible then what does the delivering MTA have to > do so that the delivered message is 'N' and all others are left > unchanged? I'd grab the source. The message is output by curs_main.c, on detecting (check == M_REOPENED). There are assignments to "check" in mx.c and curs_main.c, and mbox_check_mailbox() in mbox.c tells (in comments) that our guess at the meaning of M_REOPENED is correct. It's 2 a.m. here, so I'll leave it to you to figure out how to make the python behave so that it detects M_NEW_MAIL instead. (Is it respecting the file locking in mx_lock_file(0 in mx.c?) I see that function does a sleep(). I should do that too. Erik -- manual, n.: A unit of documentation. There are always three or more on a given item. One is on the shelf; someone has the others. The information you need is in the others. - Ray Simard
