On Tuesday, 21 September 1999 at 13:11, Chris Green wrote:
Well I have finally got a recent version of mutt configured and built
here. It's version 0.96.6i.
How do I find out what all the 'clever' things I can now do with IMAP4
mailboxes are?
There aren't really any clever things. But a bunch of the things you
could do with other mailbox formats you can now also do with IMAP.
I have a couple of initial observations:-
1 - It asks for my IMAP4 password again when I open an IMAP folder
even though the password is in my .muttrc. Has the .muttrc format
changed for this?
you found this one. I've got some additions to the documentation for
IMAP that should make this less trouble to spot.
2 - When it asked for my password it was for
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@mailandnews.co.uk which is not my user name
at mailandnews.co.uk! :-)
Are you doing
set [EMAIL PROTECTED]?
Mutt just sticks the hostname at the end as a way to tell you where
you're logging in. Everything from the last @ on isn't actually sent
out. I guess mutt could detect if there was an @ in the username and not
display the rest, but that's hackish and not robust. Maybe it just needs
different formatting.
3 - Why does it re-read the IMAP folder *every* time I do something?
This makes it nearly unusable except when the internet is at its very
best and fastest. It also reports that the folder has been externally
modified every time I do something.
There are a large number of speed enhancements that arrived after 96.6,
unfortunately. But you may find setting imap_checkinterval to some
non-zero number (say 90) helps tremendously. In the next dev release,
this will be the default.
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