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. -- Brendan Cully <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | OLD SKOOL ROOLZ "I hope I don't win | .-_|\ The rules say to bring a friend | / \ I don't have any" | Perth ->*.--._/
