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List:       mutt-users
Subject:    Re: pop_checkinterval doesn't seem to be working
From:       Gary Johnson <garyjohn () spk ! agilent ! com>
Date:       2001-05-30 16:34:25
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On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 06:06:43PM +0200, Per von Zweigbergk wrote:
> Decided to try to use the mutt pop3 client, but it doesn't seem that the
> automatic periodic checkings are working for me.
> 
> My .muttrc is pretty lean, containing:
> 
> set pop_checkinterval=10
> set pop_delete=yes
> set pop_host=pop://username:password@host
> 
> (Of course, the values in pop_host have been replaced for privacy ;)
> 
> The checkinterval is only 10 for testing purposes. Of course, REALLY using
> a 10 second interval would be very net.unfriendly (tm)
> 
> Am I doing something outrageously wrong here, or is there a bug?
> 
> For reference, I'm using the latest version of mutt in Debian unstable,
> namely 1.3.18

This is just a guess since I use neither POP nor 1.3.x, but have you
tried setting 'timeout' to something like 10?

Gary

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Gary Johnson                               | Agilent Technologies
garyjohn@spk.agilent.com                   | RF Communications PGU
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