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 06:14 PM, quoth Dan Davison:
>> 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
>
> Hmm, I'm confused. That *is* what happens, but without using fetchmail 
> or getmail.

Ah! Of course - you've only set your $spoolfile to be an IMAP folder, 
so naturally mutt moves it locally for you after you've read it.

Many folks who read their email via IMAP set $folder and $mbox to be 
the same as $spoolfile, so that their mail *stays* on the IMAP server.

>    set mbox_type=Maildir
>    set folder="~/email"
>    set spoolfile=imap://markov.stats.ox.ac.uk/INBOX
>    set mbox="+in"
>    set record="+out"
>    set postponed="+postponed"
>
> Is that what you would expect to happen?

Absolutely, given your configuration. And if that's (with the 
exception of the fact that it hangs) how you want it to behave, then 
you're probably going to be MUCH happier with using either fetchmail 
or getmail.

~Kyle
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