On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:21:52AM -0700, Jeremy Kitchen wrote: > 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.
I have also noticed that my local changes since the previous sync are lost, which is annoying indeed. > 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. I have yet to play around with mutt's break/join thread functions. Thanks for the advance warning. Ultimately I want a setup that allows incoming mail to be pushed to mutt immediately. Gmail + IMAP + mutt seemed to be the best solution for the minimum amount of configuration hassle. As an added bonus, I don't have to bother storing those reams of mailing list emails locally and I can still use gmail's web interface in a pinch. Unfortunately, it sounds like this setup has some problems. If anyone has a alternative solution that could also meet my needs, I'd love to hear about it. -- Lewis
