Re: a puzzlement
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- Subject: Re: a puzzlement
- From: Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:43:09 -0500
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On Saturday, April 18 at 12:29 PM, quoth Paul E Condon:
> What is a sync in this context?
Essentially, when mutt opens a mailbox, it builds a picture of the
mailbox's state in memory. When you mark messages as "deleted", this
is done in memory, rather than immediately to disk (this is to speed
up common use, and also to make it possible to "undelete" messages to
some extent). When you "sync", the changes from memory are written to
disk. A "sync" normally happens when you close a mailbox, but can be
triggered earlier.
> Is it something I should be doing?
Generally, it's something you already do whenever you close a mailbox.
> I thought Mutt did what I think of as sync without my asking.
It does. But it does it whenever you close a mailbox (e.g. by changing
to a different one).
> I just did a string search on 'sync-mailbox' in the Mutt info page
> and got no hits. Where is it documented?
It's documented in the manual:
http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html, though it doesn't go into
great detail... it really just "alludes" to the synchronization.
~Kyle
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