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Daniel Jensen <daniel-news@bigwalter.net> writes:

> Albert Reiner <areiner@tph.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
> 
> >>> my incoming mail gets sent to a maildir, rather than a single file.  I
> >>> have set $MAIL to the correct directory, but as that always exists,
> >>> emacs constantly displays "Mail" in the status line even if the
> >>> directory is empty.
> 
> Consider upgrading to the CVS version of Emacs. It has, among many
> other useful features, support for maildirs.
> 
> If you don't want to upgrade, this might be what you want:
> 
> <URL:http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=deathsquad.m3r93tlv1m.fsf%40socha.net>

Thanks for your reply!  I finally found time to try mail-check.el, and
it works perfectly!

Albert.