Michael Elkins [Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 09:23:59AM -0700]: > 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.
okay, this will be what I will do soon, but I am wondering why we shouldn't allow mutt to fork out the pop process. Nico -- Nico Schottelius Please send your messages pgp-signed or pgp-encrypted. If you don't know what pgp is visit www.gnupg.org. (public pgp key: ftp.schottelius.org/pub/familiy/nico/pgp-key)
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