Preferred way to get imap emails

[Grant Edwards]

On 2019-07-27, Pankaj Jangid <pankaj.jangid at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have very recently switched back to mutt. My 1st question is - is
> the preferred way to get imap emails in the mutt inbox.

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