On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 04:13:23PM -0400, t.bedlam wrote: > On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 12:23:16PM -0600, Alberto Brealey was only > escaped alone to tell thee: > > > thing is wmmail apparently changes something in the various mailboxes it > > checks, tricking mutt into thinking they don't have any new mail, even > > when they do. i want to know if someone has a solution for this problem, > > mutt uses the file timestamps to test for newness; biff-like new mail > checkers that do not reset time stamps confuse mutt (see manual.txt). > Perhaps wmmail has an option you could set?
I hacked on wmmail for a while to see if I could fix this. No luck. It does set the timestamp back, but that doesn't seem to help mutt. Maybe mutt checks something else, but I didn't have the patience to find out what from its source. > > also, how can i change the initial mailbox mutt chacks? (i thought it was > > 'set mbox = ~/mail/mbox', but that does not do the trick). > > set mbox sets your default mailbox for storing. When you have read msgs left > in /var/spool/mail/yourname when you exit, mutt asks you if you want them > moved there. > > Aside from the order of the list following mailboxes= I'm not sure there is > a way not to open your mail spool first. Try adding a '!' into the mailboxes > line. Bang, '!', is a symbol for /v/s/m/yourname in mutt. Maybe more easily, set your EMAIL environment variable to point to ~/mail/mbox (export EMAIL="$HOME/mail/mbox" in your .bashrc). Cheers, Chris -- pick, pack, pock, puck: like drops of water in a fountain falling softly in the brimming bowl.
