Re: mutt/2152: new read mail in IMAP folder not seen
The following reply was made to PR mutt/2152; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Brendan Cully <brendan@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Phil Pennock <muttbug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: bug-any@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: mutt/2152: new read mail in IMAP folder not seen
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:24:12 -0800
On Friday, 16 December 2005 at 12:22, Phil Pennock wrote:
> On 2005-12-15 at 15:24 -0800, Brendan Cully wrote:
> > In hindsight it strikes me that the problem was probably that your
> > $timeout was much too high. The new IDLE code isn't dependent on
> > $timeout, but NOOP was. $timeout has a default which isn't suitable
> > for IMAP.
>
> Was set to 60 seconds in some variable I set years ago. Now amended to
> 15 seconds, per (your) manual note.
>
> How does this affect my results though, since I was explicitly pressing
> <Esc>$ for imap-fetch-mail, so $timeout shouldn't have been an issue,
> should it?
No - if you weren't getting new mail even after calling
imap-fetch-mail, something else was wrong. But I think I'm going to
close this bug anyway, since it seems to have gone away.