Re: why isn't mutt threaded (logically)

[luke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi,

03Apr2005 @ 01:58 Craig Millar thusly spake
> been using mutt for a couple of weeks and i don't see myself looking back.
> the only complaint i have is that when it polls a server (i have several imap
> accounts) that takes a while to respond, it freezes until it has had a
> response. why is such a well respected mail client so monolithic and
> incapable of multitasking?

Mutt's great isn't it?
What you should be doing is using fetchmail to poll your servers.
Mutt is purely a user agent (MUA) and shouldn't be used for fetching mail from 
other servers.
For the same token when you send mail with mutt, it doesn't use another mail 
servers as SMTP server, like other mail programs (evolution, thunderbird), it 
uses your own machines mail transfer agent (sendmail,postfix,qmail,exim).

my .fetchmailrc looks like this:
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/
set daemon 600
poll my.Isps.POP3.Server protocol pop3 username "myNameForgetIt" password 
"asIfId"
\____________________________________________

hth,
kr,
Luke
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