Re: Wish: -r option to recover a crashed session
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 01:04:00PM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2004-07-05, Mun Johl <mun_johl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > someone takes an action on an email (delete, apply label, etc), that
> > action be recorded in some file up until the next sync. That way if for
> > some reason mutt abnormally terminates before one can sync the mail
[...]
> side-effects (such as saving a file). Further, as was already said,
> an excellent solution already exists: screen. It won't save you if
> mutt itself dies, but if your remote connection dies, screen
> maintains the state of mutt--and any other program you have
> running--until you restore the connection and restore screen. Then
> you are back to exactly where you were when your connection died.
> It has saved me on numerous occasions. You really should check it
> out.
Dude, Mun Johl seems to specifically address _mutt_ dying.
Personally, I use mutt with screen all the time. It's a beaut. But I do
have mutt die on me every once in a while (there's an email I get every
once in a while from one vendor that reliably breaks mutt. Go figure ...
it's got bad-formatted HTML or something, Yahoo doesn't like it much
either, but it doesn't kill my browser). I've learned to sync mutt (well,
I've learned to just not read the email) before trying to open it.
-roy