On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 01:19:06PM -0800, Brendan Cully wrote: > On Wednesday, 17 December 2008 at 15:15, David Young wrote: > > Today I have found that if I save a message M in IMAP folder F to > > the same folder F, and then I sync folder F by tapping '$', then > > message M is no longer present in F. This is different behavior > > than I expect for two reasons: saving a message should not be a > > destructive operation, no matter what the destination folder. > > Also, this behavior on IMAP folders is not consistent with the > > behavior on mbox-format folders, where saving to the same folder > > duplicates the affected message before marking it 'D'eleted---that > > is, the message is not destroyed. > > In my 1.5.18 IMAP behaviour is identical to mbox.
Thanks. I am running 1.5.18, now, and the behavior is closer to what I expect, but still a bit nerve-wracking. If I save a message M that is in my inbox back to my inbox with <s><!><Enter>, then mutt adds a 'D' flag to M. No duplicate of M appears. According to the state in the index, it sure looks like I deleted M. Indeed, if I sync the folder by tapping '$', M disappears. Now it *really* looks like I deleted M. :-) The message isn't really gone, though: if I load my inbox in a second instance of mutt, however, there is message M. Under the same commands as above, the behavior of a local mbox's index is a lot more desirable; I wonder if it is very hard to replicate that behavior on the index of an IMAP folder? Dave -- David Young OJC Technologies dyo...@ojctech.com Urbana, IL * (217) 278-3933
