Dear mutt list, I receive mail via my university email account, using the following line
set spoolfile=imap://markov.stats.ox.ac.uk/INBOX I then have set imap_user and set imap_pass lines. I run mutt locally on my laptop (ubuntu hardy), and save all my mail locally on my laptop. Sometimes my laptop is on a university network, and sometimes it's at home, over broadband. I know next to nothing about the technicalities of email, and although this basically seems to work, I've got lots of questions about sending and sorting incoming mail, and I'd be interested in knowing how others recommend dealing with this situation. However, one thing at a time. The problem I'd most like to solve is the following: When I'm at home, if I leave mutt running for a few minutes, it invariably becomes unresponsive. I have to backgorund it with C-z and then kill the process and restart. If I was composing an email then I have to resurrect it from /tmp/mutt-*. My guess is that this happens because mutt attempts some sort of remote communication with the imap server, but what exactly? Can anyone help me debug this? The only thing I've tried is to effectively tell mutt not to automatically check for new mail with set mail_check=`expr 60 \* 60 \* 8` but that didn't solve it. There doesn't seem to be any problem when I'm on the university network (ox.ac.uk domain, not necessarily stats.ox.ac.uk). OK, time to kill mutt, restart, and send this email. Dan
