mutt and gmail

[Jude DaShiell]

Given gmail isn't always available these days for whatever reason(s) I'm
wondering how best to regularly monitor gmail servers so users would know
if the servers are alive when they use mutt to connect and do mail
transactions.  Probably putting something into mutt would not be feasible.
I don't know if any other light-weight command line solutions for this
type of monitoring are already available since I've had no occasion to do
it yet.

When people state they cannot recieve email with a stable version of mutt
and it not being all that long ago gmail was down and that got on the news
an ability to monitor services would seem to be useful.  The gmail
monitoring should only be attempted once it's established a network
connection exists since if you haven't got a network certainly no service
on the network will work.



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