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Re: Wish: -r option to recover a crashed session



On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 07:08:21PM -0700, Mun Johl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There are times when I'm going through my mbox and I have deleted items,
> applied labels, etc. and before I sync up the file I loose my network
> connection for some reason.  That results in some choice words and
> having to redo the work.  I think it would be nice it Mutt somehow kept
> a log of the changes made to a file that haven't been sync'd yet.  And
> if there is some sort of crash of mutt, once could re-invoke mutt via
> "mutt -r" (for example) and have the state of the mail file be brought
> back up-to-date.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Mun

It's not really mutt's job to do that. You might look into using
screen(1).