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[Tom Tunguz]

You can use offlineimap and a crontab for this

https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap


On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 6:55 AM <hymie at nasalinux.net> wrote:

> 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?
>
> --hymie!             http://nasalinux.net/~hymie
> hymie at nasalinux.net
>
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