Re: Detecting new mail in mbox format

2009-04-24 Thread Michael Tatge
* On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 03:33PM +1000 Cameron Simpson (c...@zip.com.au) muttered: > On 23Apr2009 18:13, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > | Of course, personally, I think recording access time (thereby turning > | every disk access into a disk write) is a waste of my computer's time, > | so I usually mount m

Re: Detecting new mail in mbox format

2009-04-24 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, April 24 at 03:33 PM, quoth Cameron Simpson: >> But then, I also use Maildir instead of mbox, because it avoids >> lots of this kind of silliness (it's also a more well-defined >> mailbox format). > > I find mutt doesn't notice new email i

Re: Detecting new mail in mbox format

2009-04-24 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 24Apr2009 09:11, Kyle Wheeler wrote: | On Friday, April 24 at 03:33 PM, quoth Cameron Simpson: | >> But then, I also use Maildir instead of mbox, because it avoids | >> lots of this kind of silliness (it's also a more well-defined | >> mailbox format). | > | > I find mutt doesn't notice new e

not detecting new mail in MailDir format?

2009-04-24 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 25Apr2009 07:09, I wrote in <20090424210913.ga24...@cskk.homeip.net>: | On 24Apr2009 09:11, Kyle Wheeler wrote: | | On Friday, April 24 at 03:33 PM, quoth Cameron Simpson: | | > I find mutt doesn't notice new email in maildirs when I press '$'. | | > Is there a common misconfiguration I might

Re: not detecting new mail in MailDir format?

2009-04-24 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, April 25 at 07:31 AM, quoth Cameron Simpson: >Well, if I've got my "+me" folder open and press '$', an strace shows >only this (all system calls with the string "/me" in them): > > [pid 28316] stat("/home/cameron/mail/me", {st_mode=S_IFDI

Notification on new mails

2009-04-24 Thread Chengqi(Lars) Song
Hi, Im using getmail/procmail/mutt/msmtp as my personal mail toolkit. It works well but lacks of notification on new mails. How do you deal with that? I want to add a notification to new coming mail in my "inbox-vip" mail box. How can I modify my procmailrc for that? the corresponding lines are

Re: Notification on new mails

2009-04-24 Thread J. Limon
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 01:55:39PM +0800, Chengqi(Lars) Song wrote: > Hi, > > Im using getmail/procmail/mutt/msmtp as my personal mail toolkit. It works > well but lacks of notification on new mails. How do you deal with that? > > I want to add a notification to new coming mail in my "inbox-vip"

Re: Notification on new mails

2009-04-24 Thread Chengqi(Lars) Song
I'm using bare X + WindowManager instead of Desktop. I use osd-cat for some other notifications. lars On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, J. Limon wrote: > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 01:55:39PM +0800, Chengqi(Lars) Song wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Im using getmail/procmail/mutt/msmtp as my personal mail toolkit. It