Re: mutt hangs when using remote imap server over home broadband

2008-08-04 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, August 4 at 10:05 AM, quoth Patrick Shanahan: >> 1b) Sometimes maildirs have an 'N' next to them to indicate new >> mail, but at other times there is no 'N' despite having new mail. >> Can anyone enlighten me about this? > > 'N' does mean

Re: mutt hangs when using remote imap server over home broadband

2008-08-04 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Dan Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08-04-08 09:10]: > > Right, thanks to the people who told me to stop using mutt to retrieve > email. I've now got getmail retrieving from the imap server, and > procmail sorting incoming mail into different maildirs. So, as you > predicted, that's much better. I'

Re: mutt hangs when using remote imap server over home broadband

2008-08-04 Thread Dan Davison
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 08:54:15AM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Thursday, July 31 at 11:01 AM, quoth Dan Davison: > > I know next to nothing about the technicalities of email, and > > although this basically seems to work, I've got lots of questions > > about sending and sorting incoming mail,

Re: mutt hangs when using remote imap server over home broadband

2008-07-31 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, July 31 at 06:14 PM, quoth Dan Davison: >> Pretty much the same way. Although unless you want to keep your >> mail on their IMAP server for some other reason, chances are that >> you'll be MUCH happier if you pull all your mail and store

Re: mutt hangs when using remote imap server over home broadband

2008-07-31 Thread Dan Davison
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 08:54:15AM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Thursday, July 31 at 11:01 AM, quoth Dan Davison: > > I know next to nothing about the technicalities of email, and > > although this basically seems to work, I've got lots of questions > > about sending and sorting incoming mail,

Re: mutt hangs when using remote imap server over home broadband

2008-07-31 Thread Marianne Promberger
On Thursday, 31 July 2008, 08:54 (UTC-0500), Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Thursday, July 31 at 11:01 AM, quoth Dan Davison: > > I know next to nothing about the technicalities of email, and > > although this basically seems to work, I've got lots of questions > > about sending and sorting incoming ma

Re: mutt hangs when using remote imap server over home broadband

2008-07-31 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, July 31 at 11:01 AM, quoth Dan Davison: > I know next to nothing about the technicalities of email, and > although this basically seems to work, I've got lots of questions > about sending and sorting incoming mail, and I'd be interested

Re: mutt hangs when using remote imap server over home broadband

2008-07-31 Thread Benjamin Schieder
On 31.07.2008 11:01:26, Dan Davison wrote: > Dear mutt list, > > I receive mail via my university email account, using the following line > > set spoolfile=imap://markov.stats.ox.ac.uk/INBOX > > I then have set imap_user and set imap_pass lines. > > I run mutt locally on my laptop (ubuntu hardy

mutt hangs when using remote imap server over home broadband

2008-07-31 Thread Dan Davison
Dear mutt list, I receive mail via my university email account, using the following line set spoolfile=imap://markov.stats.ox.ac.uk/INBOX I then have set imap_user and set imap_pass lines. I run mutt locally on my laptop (ubuntu hardy), and save all my mail locally on my laptop. Sometimes my la