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Re: Happy New Year!



On 2009-01-03, Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Friday, January  2 at 02:16 PM, quoth Gary Johnson:
> > Wrong.  I can do that now.  Using multiple mutts to access one 
> > mailbox has the problem that each instance of mutt has its own idea 
> > of the status of each message and that status can't currently be 
> > sync'd among multiple mutts.  What would be nice is a way to have 
> > one mutt display multiple views of the same mailbox.
> 
> I get your point, assuming you meant *unsynchronized* status changes. 
> Because the way you sync status among multiple mutts is to save your 
> changes to the mailbox (i.e. <sync-mailbox>). In essence, if I 
> understand you, you're saying that you want multiple mutt instances to 
> know things that are not saved to disk (or that the IMAP server 
> doesn't know).

Right.  Also, as I understand it, syncing a mailbox means that mutt 
writes the statuses that are in memory to disk--mutt doesn't try to 
reconcile statuses on disk with those in memory, except for new 
messages.  Therefore, if mutt instance A changes the status of 
message 1 and mutt instance B changes the status of message 2, there 
is no way to get both those changes into the on-disk mailbox.

Regards,
Gary