On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 06:06:43PM +0200, Per von Zweigbergk wrote:
> Decided to try to use the mutt pop3 client, but it doesn't seem that the
> automatic periodic checkings are working for me.
>
> My .muttrc is pretty lean, containing:
>
> set pop_checkinterval=10
> set pop_delete=yes
> set pop_host=pop://username:password@host
>
> (Of course, the values in pop_host have been replaced for privacy ;)
>
> The checkinterval is only 10 for testing purposes. Of course, REALLY using
> a 10 second interval would be very net.unfriendly (tm)
>
> Am I doing something outrageously wrong here, or is there a bug?
>
> For reference, I'm using the latest version of mutt in Debian unstable,
> namely 1.3.18
This is just a guess since I use neither POP nor 1.3.x, but have you
tried setting 'timeout' to something like 10?
Gary
--
Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | RF Communications PGU
http://www.spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/ | Spokane, Washington, USA