Re: a puzzlement

[Paul E Condon <pecondon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2009-04-18_13:43:09, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> 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.

I found my problem. I wasn't using header cacheing, but I also wasn't
getting RFC2822 date format correct. So, naturally I kept getting
Epoch.

Thanks and sorry about having an annoying way of expressing myself.

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Paul E Condon           
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