You can use offlineimap and a crontab for this https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap
On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 6:55 AM <hy...@nasalinux.net> wrote: > Julius Hamilton writes: > >Hey, > > > >Is it possible to configure Mutt so that all the emails are downloaded on > >my machine so that Mutt opens the inbox for viewing immediately, without > >loading time to re-connect to the IMAP server every time it is launched? > > It sounds to me like this is outside the scope of Mutt. You'll need > a program that routinely checks your IMAP server and downloads waiting > emails to a spool file/directory that Mutt will then read. > > Is "fetchmail" still a thing? > > --hymie! http://nasalinux.net/~hymie > hy...@nasalinux.net >