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Re: a puzzlement



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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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