Nico Schottelius wrote: > I am wondering why mutt has to be locked while G-taking pop mails. > I think I still could work/send new mails while mutt does this work. > I also think that it would be senseful, if I get 500 messages, I could > start to answer the first while recieving the last 400. > > So my question, why don't we easily fork() this process ?
You probably want to install fetchmail instead of using Mutt's built in POP3 support. This will give you more flexibility, and allow you to download mail in the background.
