On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > If you want to use the IDLE feature of IMAP, then yes, you need to set > $imap_idle yourself.
Thanks Kyle, setting imap_idle solved the problem. Another question about imap, does it require mutt to poll the server just like pop3, or the imap server will actively notice mutt (email client) when new emails arrives once the connection to imap server is established? -- regards, ==================================================== GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3
