On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 06:19:45PM -0400, Brendan Cully wrote:
> > 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.
>
The server is odd in that my user name is '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
not just 'cgreen', I can live with it anyway as I don't have to enter
my password now.
> > 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.
>
OK, yes it does, thanks.
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Chris Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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