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On Wednesday, July 22 at 05:57 AM, quoth bill lam:
> Does the imap_idle or imap_keepalive need to set explicitly in
> current HEAD version of mutt?
If you want to use the IDLE feature of IMAP, then yes, you need to set
$imap_idle yourself. The reason it defaults to off is that there are
several IMAP servers that claim to support IDLE but which have major
problems if you try to use it. For example, when mutt first started
supporting IDLE, it exposed a bug (the same bug, oddly) in both
BincIMAP's and Dovecot's IDLE support: they didn't like it when the
IDLE command was pipelined after another command, and that caused them
to disconnect the client (mutt). To my knowledge, Gmail implements
IDLE correctly, so you can safely enable $imap_idle.
The $imap_keepalive setting defaults to 900 seconds between IMAP
commands; it should be small enough, but you may want to make it
smaller. In the words of the muttrc man page:
The default is well within the RFC-specified minimum amount of
time (30 minutes) before a server is allowed to [disconnect you],
but in practice the RFC does get violated every now and then.
Reduce this number if you find yourself getting disconnected from
your IMAP server due to inactivity.
> # refresh imap inbox
> # set imap_keepalive=300
You probably want to uncomment that.
> # Don't wait to enter mailbox manually #unset imap_passive
>
> # Automatically poll subscribed mailboxes for new mail (new in 1.5.11)
> set imap_check_subscribed=yes
>
> # Reduce polling frequency to a sane level
> set mail_check=300
>
> # And poll the current mailbox more often (not needed with IDLE in
> post 1.5.11)
> set timeout=300
That description is not quite accurate (I don't think). Check out this
description: http://markmail.org/message/y7bbgghx4k2sxgtc
~Kyle
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