On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 09:27:05PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > Such a change would have no effect on current settings of > 0, > likely 99.99+ percent of mutt installations. And for those few > who do use mail_check == 0, a change to "1" would be little > affected as far as I can see.
While I agree this is well-intentioned, there are only a few problems with this: - behavior changes like this are not particularly well-publicized; and there's no way to know how many people might be using the existing behavior. - If you have it set to zero and want that behavior, changing the behavior of 0 from "check instantly" to "check never" is a pretty huge, unintuitive change. It will be far from obvious why mutt has suddenly stopped checking mail. You should avoid doing this to your users without a strong, compelling reason. - It does not actually accomplish the goal; mutt will still check mail periodically despite this, as I've now pointed out for the third time. All in all, I think making a change here is asking for more trouble than it's really worth. You could gate the behavior change on yet another config variable, but OPNAMCS. [Oh please, not another mutt configuration setting.] IMO, this just isn't worth it, to please the one person who's asked for it in 20 years... -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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