* fe...@crowfix.com <fe...@crowfix.com> wrote: > Two things happened about the same time -- I upgraded mutt on my linux > system, and I upgraded my smart phone. The phone matters because I > suddenly had enough memory for various apps which had long since been > squeezed out of the old phone, including K-9 email. > > Ever since, the linux mutt has aperiodically closed the mailbox with a > message which disappears too quickly for me to see, and usually > happens when I am not looking at email anyway. This happens several > times a day. It sometimes, but not even a majority of the time, seems > to be vaguely related to having checked email on the phone recently, > for various paranoia-induced definitions of 'recently'. There are > also times when I check email on the phone and linux mutt soldiers on > with no problem. But a few times, I have been curious enough about > this relationship to stop looking at email on the phone, and linux > mutt seems to not close its mailbox as often. > > On the other hand, I have always been able to open a new screen > session and start a new mutt when the main one is in the middle of > composing email, and never had any problems with closing the mailbox. > > I realize this is all too vague to be very useful. But I wonder if > K-9 does anything different that would sufficiently upset linux mutt > to confuse it and close the mailbox? The main difference I see is > that K-9 sets up some kind of push notification with the server and > knows of new email instantly rather than only checking every minute as > linux mutt does. > > Speaking of which, is there any way to get mutt to handle push notices > from the mail server? I suspect not, since mutt is a mailbox reader, > not an smtp client as such. > > Linux is Ubuntu 13.04, and its mutt is 1.5.21. Don't know what the > mail server is, but it serves up IMAP. > ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. > Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com > GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 > I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room > o
I wonder if this is associated with gmail. Because I have noticed the same thing happening no matter what mobile client I use. I also thing that this topic has been covered before on this this list. But alas I cannot remember what causes it. -- Chris Sussmann GPG Key ID: 0x98ED9AB4 GPG Key URL: http://goo.gl/eD8Yu5
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