Re: Wish: -r option to recover a crashed session
On 21:59 05 Jul 2004, Gary Johnson <garyjohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| On 2004-07-05, "Roy S. Rapoport" <mutt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| > Dude, Mun Johl seems to specifically address _mutt_ dying.
|
| In his original posting he began,
|
| 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.
|
| So while he was asking for a solution to the general problem of mutt
| dying, his specific problem seemed to be that his network connection
| was dropping.
Then he's probably getting a SIGHUP as his terminal hangs up.
Sounds like one route would be to give mutt a "sync--and-quit-on-HUP-or-TERM"
switch, defaulting to on. Thoughts?
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