On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 09:58:44AM -0400, Lewis Pike wrote: > I have recently configured mutt to connect to my gmail via IMAP. This > has been working reasonably well but I've found that very > occasionally, when I am in the index view, I will suddenly be booted > from the current IMAP folder, the list of emails will disappear, and > the message "Mailbox closed" will be printed at the bottom of the > screen. This issue seems to occur randomly. > > Can anyone explain what is causing this behaviour? Can I prevent this > from happenning?
gmail is timing out your connection. it's annoying, and you also lose any unsynched flags. While we're at it, gmail also doesn't allow you to modify the message on the imap server. This means the break/join thread functions don't work, nor does actually editing the message. It *does* work if you change the Message-ID header. But that obviously isn't a good idea. I wish they would just use a checksum of the message or something, but whatever. -Jeremy
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