I often spend lots of time in the browser view, in fact it is my default interface to mutt. When I get bored I hit the <check-new> key combo. I think I have never once seen new mail detected that way, though. When I get _really_ bored I hit the "y" key to return to the index of the last mailbox I was in. And lo, many times _immediately_ after doing that I see a "buffy" notification on the bottom telling me about new mail in other mailboxes.
So, I have a sneaking suspicion that check-new doesn't do what it's supposed to, or else I quite misunderstand its purpose. I cannot get any more detail from the documentation; I could of course check the source code but I feel lazy today. Can the experts help? As a bonus question, why can't mutt automatically check for new mail in the background when it is in the browser, the same way as it does in the index? It's yet another irritating inconsistency. -- Please *no* private copies of mailing list or newsgroup messages. Rule 420: All persons more than eight miles high to leave the court.
