Re: [gentoo-user] any gentoo mutt users?

[Willie Wong]

On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 12:24:00PM -0400, Penguin Lover James squawked:
> I've recently discovered the awesomeness of mutt. (I may be a little
> late, but better late than never!)

7 year user of Mutt, and I cannot agree more. 

> I'm use it for my work email. I have a rather complex and lengthy set
> of folders, and an equally complex procmail to go along with it. Mutt
> is blazing fast at opening mail folders and sorting things, but I'm
> wondering how to check when a new messages comes into a folder and
> skips the inbox.

> Any other suggestions? Something very lightweight would be awesome --
> even text based would be okay. What are you mutt users to check email
> in all your folders?

In your .bashrc (if you you bash) insert

unset MAIL
export MAILCHECK=15
export MAILPATH='<colon separated list of Mailboxes>'

This will make bash check for new mail in your MAILPATH every 15
seconds, and will display something about you having new mail before
showing the next primary prompt.

If you want to get fancier, try something like mine

export MAILPATH='~/Mail/inbox?You have mail from unknown sender.:~/Mail/gentoo-ml?New mail from Gentoo Mailing List.:~/Mail/work?New mail from office mates.:~/Mail/family?New mail from a family member.'

(I trimmed it a bit, so you don't get the names of all my friends.)
The idea is simple, and I think the syntax is self-evident. 

Also, in your .muttrc, you should set (if you use mbox type boxes. For
maildirs the syntax is similar, but your should check the mutt manual
to be sure) something like the following snip

set mbox_type=mbox
set folder=/home/wwong/Mail
set spoolfile=/home/wwong/Mail/inbox
unset mbox
mailboxes =gentoo-ml =work =family 

This way mutt will know about your mailboxes. The spoolfile will be
the default box that mutt opens. If you have bash-completion enabled,
you can just type 'mutt -f =<mailbox name>' for any mailbox listed
under mailboxes in .muttrc to open that mailbox. 

While in mutt, hitting 'c' will now first check all your mailboxes
listed under the mailboxes entry in order to see if there are any new
mails in those boxes, if so, it will default to the box, and you can
just hit <Return> to open the box and read your new mail. If no
mailbox has new mail, 'c' will bring up a prompt for the mailbox you
want to change to as usual. 

I hope my explanation is clear enough... if you need more help, feel
free to ask!

Best, 

W
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