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. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net
