On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 06:01:19PM +0000, Paul Tansom wrote: > I've been using Mutt for a good few years now, but only started using it over > IMAP a year or so ago and now I've started using multiple IMAP accounts with > it. Setting this up was straight forward enough, and I can cycle through > mailboxes with new mail in quite happily, but only if I have already checked > mail once. What I'm trying to do, and haven't yet worked out how, is connect > to > all the IMAP mail accounts when I first start Mutt, so Mutt knows which ones > have new mail in without having to manually change into each one first. Can > anyone point me to some good references for this, I've not managed to spot > what > I'm looking for with Google or on the Mutt Wiki so far. > > Another thing I'll be looking at is a means to save me typing in the full > details of each mail account in order to switch between them. I'm particularly > keen on this since they are all on the same server and each account name is > the > email address and things get quite long winded even with tab completion! I'm > thinking that something along the lines of a macro or a bind line in my muttrc > file should do the trick here, but since I'm typing if anyone has a pointer it > may save me some time :) > > -- > Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 > ====================================================================== > Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: > Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU
The best solution I know of, is to use OfflineIMAP. It can sync multiple IMAP accounts to Maildirs. It works great for me. Google for a tutorial :) -- Jan
