My experiences with Mutt to date: Suggestions for overcoming some issues

[Richard Z]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 10:04:50PM -0600, boB Stepp wrote:

> 1)  Mutt erratically loses connection with Gmail and I have to
> manually reconnect.  Sometimes this happens rather frequently as in
> multiple instances within an hour.  I am confident it is not my
> Internet connection, which is normally quite stable and fast.  For
> instance my streaming music is never interrupted, the family's TV
> shows continue unimpeded, etc., but my connectivity to Gmail is
> interrupted randomly.  If I have both Mutt and the web interface open,
> Mutt has its interruptions while the Gmail web interface appears to be
> updating normally.

Had the same problem, tried lowering imap_keepalive which didn't fix it
but apparently the combination

set imap_keepalive=180
set timeout=180

fixed it for me. Have one remaining problem - if sending an mail using
builtin SMTP takes long the imap connection is lost anyway.
However I use external SMTP programs most of the times.

Richard