[SOLVED] Mutt having problem connecting to gmail imap

Just yesterday my mutt email was fine connecting to gmail via imap. I didn't touch .muttrc at all. Now when I run mutt it gives the "Connecting to imap.gmail.com ..." message and then times out with the "Connection to imap.gmail.com closed" error and I get an empty inbox. Any ideas on what I should be looking at?
Last edited by mutaphore (2015-01-18 19:19:22)

Offlineimap doesn't get your mail to you quicker - but it definitely does save mutt loading time. Offlineimap runs as a daemon and keeps a local maildir copy of all your mail. The main purpose for this is so you can read your mail while offline (hence the name), but an added bonus is that whenever you open mutt, mutt doesn't need to wait for the imap connection/download/sync/whatever - it just reads from the local maildir which is effectively instantaneous*.
EDIT: *often that is. I do have a 'storage' mailbox with ~5000 emails in it. When I swtich to that mailbox mutt still takes a second to read the maildir folder. But if this were in online form only it could take a minute or more. My inbox which often holds 50-100 emails loads instantly.

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[SOLVED] Mutt having problem connecting to gmail imap

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