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Re: a puzzlement



On 2009-04-18_12:05:51, David Champion wrote:
> * On 18 Apr 2009, Paul E Condon wrote: 
> > When Mutt closes, it invariable issues the message:
> > 
> > "Mailbox is unchanged."
> 
> Do you <sync-mailbox> before you <quit> or <exit>?  "Mailbox is
> unchanged" means that no messages were changed since the last sync.
> 
> (It doesn't count changes since startup, just changes to the current
> context; and the context is reset whenever you sync.)

What is a sync in this context? Is it something I should be doing? 
I thought Mutt did what I think of as sync without my asking.
I just did a string search on 'sync-mailbox' in the Mutt info page
and got no hits. Where is it documented?

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