On 2014-01-17, fe...@crowfix.com <fe...@crowfix.com> wrote: > 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
[...] > 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. Some IMAP servers don't allow multiple clients to have the same mailbox open simultaneously. Mutt doesn't care. The last time I used the Courier IMAP server, it refused to allow more than one client to open a mailbox at a time. If you did a second open operation from a different client, the first client got the boot. Courier IMAP also choked on certain mailbox names and had various other usability problems -- I was quite happy to leave it behind. AFAICT, Exchange, Gmail, and Dovecot IMAP servers handle it fine. I regularly have simultaneous mutt sessions open in the same folder with Gmail's IMAP server and have never seen any problems. -- Grant
