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mutt stable branch with some hacks
1IMAP in mutt should be considered beta quality. For the most part it
2works well, but it is still not quite as stable or as full-featured
3as some of the other drivers. I believe it is now acceptable for
4daily use (and that's how I use it now, currently against Cyrus 1.6.24 and
5previously against UW-IMAP 4.7 and 2000).
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7You may still lose some work if you are suddenly disconnected from your
8server (but your mailboxes should be fine). Currently accessing the same
9IMAP folder with multiple clients is not supported - it may work, but
10no guarantees. There are still several non-critical known bugs, see
11http://bugs.guug.de/ for the current list.
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13You may also be disappointed in mutt's handling of very large IMAP mailboxes.
14To build the message index mutt must fetch a subset of headers from every
15message in the mailbox, which costs time and network traffic linear to the
16number of messages in your mailbox.
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18Nevertheless in general mutt is quite a fast and fully-featured IMAP client.
19It tries to be polite to IMAP servers as well, opening few connections and
20avoiding needless polls of the server, unlike certain other popular IMAP
21clients by certain large corporations :)
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23Mutt supports almost all official authentication and security protocols for
24IMAP, including SSL/TLS, native CRAM-MD5 and GSSAPI routines, and a SASL
25plugin which can handle just about everything else.
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27Please report bugs to mutt-dev@mutt.org and/or brendan@kublai.com. Version,
28options, stack-trace and .muttdebug files are a plus.
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30Brendan Cully <brendan@kublai.com>
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