-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry Kissinger -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Thank you for using encryption! iEYEARECAAYFAknqHz0ACgkQBkIOoMqOI17LpwCgqrngAsKWDx7IcIMpG1NyXrjI /QYAoJ3aJrzECbdl4nOcLSmxnpLWaE94 =5hDX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
