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List:       mutt-users
Subject:    Re: How to ask mutt to not check for new mail
From:       Xu Wang <xuwang762 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2015-06-21 1:58:21
Message-ID: CAJhTkNh3hDXKsMeE31CgBcdjBN-XzwC95Vifuo34w5V6UPivDg () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 5:51 AM, Erik Christiansen
<dvalin@internode.on.net> wrote:
> On 18.06.15 20:21, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
>> * Xu Wang <xuwang762@gmail.com> [06-18-15 20:06]:
>> > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Derek Martin <invalid@pizzashack.org> wrote:
>>  [...]
>> > > Having answered the question, I am pretty curious:  Why on earth would
>> > > you want to do that?!
>> >
>> > The reason is that I have focus problems (attention deficit disorder I
>> > believe is the English term). I would like to start Mutt and have Mutt
>> > check for new mail *at the initial starting* and then address all of
>> > the mail there, and only after that check if there is new mail. If I
>> > am working on my inbox and all of a sudden a new email arrives, it
>> > completely throws me out of focus. I imagine this must be difficult
>> > for many to understand but that is how I am.
>
> As I must turn off the radio before I can properly focus, your plight is
> not difficult to imagine. (Oddly, people who continuously check their
> mobile phone, seem to relish being disturbed. Each to his own. :-)
>
>> I understand the need for "no distraction" but cannot understand what
>> checking mail has to do with that unless you have some buffy pgm advising
>> new mail.  My setup only advises where new mail is when I change files
>> (mbox) and the request to change files provides the next file which has
>> "new mail".  Ie: I do not disable checking mail but do not get a visible
>> or interruptive announcement of new mail.  But my vision my be limited as
>> I *only* employe mbox and read remotely via ssh into my server box.
>
> Reading mail locally here, I see the name of a mailbox with new mail
> spontaneously appear in the status line, at least when I'm in the index.
> (Not sure about the browser.) While working in another xterm, the
> apparent movement is immediately obvious visually. Subsequently hitting
> '.' does, though, often throw up a longer list of mailboxes, so the
> buffy display may be done only on the first positive check?
>
> It can be a distraction, but that is easily cured by lowering the
> xterm. (I use four, two per side of a wide screen, auto-launched, and
> with mutt auto-started in one of them.)
>
> If I really had to prevent mutt checking mail too often, then I'd just
> prevent mutt checking mail too often - set timeout to a very high value,
> as previously suggested.
>
> Erik

Thank you for such a response and such comprehension of my quirkys! I
shall follow the advice and use a high value.

Kind regards,

Xu
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