Preferred way to get imap emails

[Jude DaShiell]

I have getmail working pulling email from my gmail account using imap
and it only grabs the new mail for me each time I run it and I open up
mutt and go through the email then mutt purges what I deleted as it
exits.

On Sat, 27 Jul 2019, Grant Edwards wrote:

> Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 12:24:53
> From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com>
> To: mutt-users at mutt.org
> Subject: Re: Preferred way to get imap emails
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> On 2019-07-27, Pankaj Jangid <pankaj.jangid at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I have very recently switched back to mutt. My 1st question is - is
> > the preferred way to get imap emails in the mutt inbox.
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> I've been using mutt with Gmail for 10-15 years, and I just point mutt
> at Gmail's IMAP server and leave all of the email on that server.
> [That sounds like what you have now.]
>
> > [...]
>
> > I tried to configure mutt with imap settings. It is functionally
> > working fine but each email is separately downloaded when I open it.
>
> Yep, that's how IMAP works.  I guess I'm lucky that my network
> connection is fast enough that it doesn't bother me.
>
> > I have configured cache so it doesn't happen everytime with the same
> > email. My 2nd question is - is there a way to pre-fetch all the
> > emails in inbox.
>
> I don't think so -- not without using something like offline-imap.
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> Grant
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