On 17.06.11,18:19, lee wrote: > "Mark Smith" <mutt...@awayand.sleepmail.com> writes: > > >> > I am trying to prevent mutt from opening a connection to my imap > >> > spoolfolder on startup. > >> > Does anyone know how to prevent this? I would simply like to > >> > view my cached messages and connect to imap manually if I want to. > >> > >> Comment out the imap entry in muttrc and change to the imap folders > >> manually? > >> > > Unfortunately, that won't work. I still want to access my cached > > messages. So when I start mutt, it should show me my cached inbox > > without connecting automatically... > > Are these messages cached on the IMAP server? > > If not, how about "mutt -f ~/cached-inbox" and then connecting at will? >
What about setting up offlineimap and just sync that when you want? Then you can view your previously synced messages locally. Jostein
