>> Right now I see it is not involved.
>
> So the time-out is not used when connecting to the mail server?
>
I was wrong. Indeed it is used. Look at mailutils/mail.c:

----
const FAST_FUNC char *command(const char *fmt, const char *param)
{
        const char *msg = fmt;
        if (timeout)
                alarm(timeout);
----

So -w N would result in idling at most N seconds.

--
Vladimir
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