On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Gary Johnson <garyj...@spocom.com> wrote: > On 2015-06-18, Xu Wang wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 5:48 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: >> > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 04:46:02AM -0400, Xu Wang wrote: >> >> >> >> It is actually not documented (in 'man muttrc') what happens if >> >> mail_check is set to 0. Does this mean it never checks or that it >> >> checks as often as possible? >> > >> > Look at the main manual (usually available from Mutt with F1). On my >> > system it resides in: >> > >> > /usr/share/doc/mutt-kz/manual.html >> > /usr/share/doc/mutt-kz/manual.txt >> > >> > Hope this helps, >> >> Ah interesting. I did not realize about this. I will read it. >> >> However, searching for "mail_check" gives me: >> No matching help pages found in “Terminal”. >> >> I'm not sure if there is such a way to search outside of restricted >> scope "Terminal". > > Mutt and Terminal both use F1 for help. Terminal sees the key > first, so it "wins". > > You can get around that by disabling F1 in Terminal, binding a > different key to help in mutt, or by accessing mutt's help from the > mutt command line with: > > :push <f1> >
Thank you to you both! I feel quite silly now (although I do these things often). Suvayu, I saw the same description (with 'man muttrc'). I suppose you are right that if 0 is not mentioned then it is not defined what it does. So in that case, there is no way to disable checking for new mail? Kind regards, Xu
