Re: Patch to CVS
On 06Apr2006 16:47, Christoph Berg <cb@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
| 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.
Maybe SIGTERM, too? Of course never SIGQUIT - that's for debugging.
| 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.
Um, care to elaborate on this? (Perhaps on mutt-users with a new subject).
Beyond fiddling the collapse options and pushing <collapse-all> on
entering the mailbox I don't see how to do this easily. My attempts feel
clunky. What do you do?
Cheers,
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