>> 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:
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const FAST_FUNC char *command(const char *fmt, const char *param)
{
const char *msg = fmt;
if (timeout)
alarm(timeout);
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So -w N would result in idling at most N seconds.
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Vladimir
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