Re: Nicholas Longo 2006-04-06 <20060406142548.GA2404@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > The main advantage of this feature in pine was that it would > > automatically save the mbox with the 'deleted' flags when it (or > > rather the terminal/ssh) crashed so you didn't "unloose" all mail. > > With the patch I coded up it wouldn't save data from a crash. I only > change the routine that synchronizes. I thought about this but, many people, > myself included have enormous mail boxes, writing to disk every time > you delete a message would get 'expensive'. You can implement that by trapping SIGHUP and only then syncing the folder. > > I don't know how useful writing mboxes with deleted messages in them > > is in normal operation. > > Depends on how you read your mail for some people it is vital. In some folders (mailing lists mostly) I don't ever delete messages but limit to (threads containing) unread messages. I guess that's about the same scheme using a different mechanism. Christoph -- cb@xxxxxxxx | http://www.df7cb.de/
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