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[hymie at nasalinux.net]

Julius Hamilton writes:
>Hey,
>
>Is it possible to configure Mutt so that all the emails are downloaded on
>my machine so that Mutt opens the inbox for viewing immediately, without
>loading time to re-connect to the IMAP server every time it is launched?

It sounds to me like this is outside the scope of Mutt.  You'll need
a program that routinely checks your IMAP server and downloads waiting
emails to a spool file/directory that Mutt will then read.

Is "fetchmail" still a thing?

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