how to have mutt show new mail on index ?

Hi All , I use mutt and fetchmail to retrive mail how ever if i leave mutt open it will not show new messeges on index unless i press a key i have check_mail=yes in my .muttrc but it does not seem to work any idea's ? Mute n output from mutt -v 1.2.5i (2000-07-28) System: FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE [

text/html entry in mailcap not working ....

Hi to all , after reading the manual and the Muttrc file ( and a little help from Rick ,thanks again ). mutt is working just like i want it to . only thing standing between me and mutt nirvana is the html attachments ;~( here's what i came up with ( and still not working .) .muttrc set mailcap_pa