On Saturday, 20 March 2010 at 18:01, Paul Tansom wrote: > I've been using Mutt for a good few years now, but only started using it over > IMAP a year or so ago and now I've started using multiple IMAP accounts with > it. Setting this up was straight forward enough, and I can cycle through > mailboxes with new mail in quite happily, but only if I have already checked > mail once. What I'm trying to do, and haven't yet worked out how, is connect > to > all the IMAP mail accounts when I first start Mutt, so Mutt knows which ones > have new mail in without having to manually change into each one first. Can > anyone point me to some good references for this, I've not managed to spot > what > I'm looking for with Google or on the Mutt Wiki so far.
unset $imap_passive to automatically connect to any mailbox you've added to the mailboxes list with the 'mailboxes' command. > Another thing I'll be looking at is a means to save me typing in the full > details of each mail account in order to switch between them. I'm particularly > keen on this since they are all on the same server and each account name is > the > email address and things get quite long winded even with tab completion! I'm > thinking that something along the lines of a macro or a bind line in my muttrc > file should do the trick here, but since I'm typing if anyone has a pointer it > may save me some time :) yes, binding a macro should help here. e.g., macro index I '<change-folder>imap://f...@bar/INBOX'
