On 2014-04-15, Chris Down <ch...@chrisdown.name> wrote:
> 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.
Ah, that's good to know. I gernally don't leave mutt running all the
time, so I never messed with IDLE or polling settings.
I have a simple GTK IMAP mail notifier app which lights up a button on
my desktop when there's mail (clicking the button then starts a
terminal running mutt). The IMAP mail notifier does use IDLE with
gmail's IMAP server, and doesn't seem to have any problems.
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at to go vacuum my coin
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