[ I want to preface this by saying the recent discussions about POP3 that suggest it is a reasonable approach or a viable alternative are quite concerning to me, becauase as a practical matter, my understanding is that basically "nobody should still be using POP3" and it is a moribund and technically inadequate protocol with a lot of problems, and you are much better off figuring whatever is necessary to make IMAP work in your circumstance. But that's not this thread. And also that it's a potentially religious viewpoint and may well be wrong, and I personally have plenty of reasons to be unhappy with IMAP. ]
meine's explanation is not satisfactory and does not make sense to me. I think the correct explanation is that under most circumstances, the default timeouts combined with the IMAP IDLE command and IMAP NOTIFY extension make it such that clients should not need to poll IMAP servers for new mail and so a user should not have to initiate such a manual poll. But I think many of us do not live in that reality. I indeed have bind index \` imap-fetch-mail in my .muttrc and I use it with some regularity, although I am not always satisfied with the results. -- jh...@alum.mit.edu John Hawkinson meine <trial...@gmx.com> wrote on Sun, 11 Sep 2022 at 15:16:11 EDT in <Yx4z+w/ht22FUSMU@trackstand>: > > Why isn't there a default binding for the "imap-fetch-mail" function, > > just like 'G' for POP3? I know I can assign it, but was curious > > AFAIK POP3 needs to be triggered with 'G' to fetch newe mails and IMAP > just reads the mailserver for all mails in your boxes. IMAP is to have > all emails from wherever you access the account, so you don't have to > use some fetch command because it is already done at access.
