imaps timeout

[BP25]

Hello,

I've used mutt in 2019 to make via imaps a local copy of my parents's
large inbox. I'd be very grateful if you could clarify something for me.

Under the assumption that my internet connection was stable and that I
had to insert the password when requested to initiate the connection (ie
I didn't store the password in .muttrc or any other file), is there risk
that such download was interrupted by some ``timeout'' behaviour (of
mutt, of the server, of the connection etc...) ?

Since it took some time I looked away during the process so I'd have
missed an error especially if being displayed for just few seconds. If
requested to reinsert the password, then I might have missed this too
(note that such requests for input _would_ timeout indeed).

No particular email message is extremely large, hence intuitively I'd
expect that every new email fetched would reset any possible
timeout. And if not, I'd expect mutt would reconnect automatically
(without me needing to reinsert the password even if as I said I didn't
store the password).

Do you have any idea? Please, let me know.
Many warm thanks in advance for your expert opinion!