Re: mutt hangs when using remote imap server over home broadband

[Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Thursday, July 31 at 11:01 AM, quoth Dan Davison:
> I know next to nothing about the technicalities of email, and 
> although this basically seems to work, I've got lots of questions 
> about sending and sorting incoming mail, and I'd be interested in 
> knowing how others recommend dealing with this situation.

Pretty much the same way. Although unless you want to keep your mail 
on their IMAP server for some other reason, chances are that you'll be 
MUCH happier if you pull all your mail and store it locally on your 
laptop (e.g. using fetchmail or getmail) rather than keep it on their 
server. That will make browsing through your mail archives MUCH 
faster, and certainly more reliable. On the other hand, if you need to 
be able to read your email without needing your laptop handy, then 
obviously that's not a workable solution.

> When I'm at home, if I leave mutt running for a few minutes, it 
> invariably becomes unresponsive.

Ugh. Well, my first guess would be that your school's IMAP server has 
a shockingly low timeout (the standard length is 30 minutes), such 
that when mutt tries to check for mail again, mutt doesn't realize 
that the IMAP server already closed the connection. The solution would 
be to use a lower $timeout value, so that mutt checks for new mail 
*MORE* frequently, so that their IMAP server doesn't consider you 
MIA..

Another thought is that your school's IMAP server may not be 
implementing the IDLE command correctly; try unsetting $imap_idle in 
your muttrc.

~Kyle
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