Notifications of new mail in mutt
Mutt lets you define certain mailboxes as “active”—that is, mailboxes which are likely to receive new mail on an ongoing basis. When any of these active mailboxes receives a new message, Mutt will alert you with a status bar notification. To use this feature, list the mailboxes to be monitored with the mailboxes command, as follows:
mailboxes “=inbox”
mailboxes “=lists/php”
You can set, how often mutt shall check for new mails with:
set timeout=10 # mutt ‘presses’ (like) a key for you (while you’re idle)
# each x sec to trigger the thing below
set mail_check=5 # mutt checks for new mails on every keystroke
# but not more often then once in 5 seconds
set beep_new # beep on new messages in the mailboxes
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