Grant Edwards writes: > I though mutt supported IMAP's IDLE command. That should reduce the > latency to well under a second.
At least in my experience, IMAP IDLE on mutt results in sporadic lockups (on Google Apps, at least). The only solution I found was to set mail_check and timeout to a low(ish) value. In the end I just downloaded my mail locally and read it from there.
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