Re: Updating when new mail arrives

[Ian Campbell <ijc25 cam ac uk>]

Under mail options in the prefernces window you can set balsa to check
every X minutes for new mail

Or you can press the get new mail button (C-m on my install) to force it at
any time...

Ian

On 2000-12-11 15:47:18 +0000 Daniel Foster wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to the list, and to Balsa.  Hell, I'm new to Linux but that just
> makes me a good test candidate, right?
> 
> I installed Balsa 1.0 from an RPM, and it works nicely.  I use
> fetchmail/procmail to get and filter my incoming mail in to a number of
> separate mailboxes.  Balsa seems to recognize these nicely, but when a
> new
> message arrives while Balsa's already open it does not show up.  I had a
> look through the archives and the best I could find was a message from
> 1999
> saying this was urgently needed to work (with which I agree) and it
> should
> be done ASAP.
> 
> So my question is this:  Do I really have to keep quitting and reloading
> Balsa to make it realise the fact that there are new messages in my
> mailboxes?
> 
> Along with this (and also mentioned in the archives, but no solution that
> I
> could see) was that it'd be really nice if the mailbox list at the left
> updated itself to show the correct number of unread messages without the
> individual mailboxes having to be clicked on.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Daniel Foster - d.foster@handseek.com
> 
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Ian Campbell
Churchill College, Cambridge.