On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 09:10:49AM +0000, ed wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 09:23:59AM -0400, Marc Vaillant wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've been a happy mutt user for over a decade. Of course there are a > > few minor features here and there that I wish mutt had. The one that's > > really getting to me lately is that as far as I know, there is no > > automatic way to execute "$". i.e. save changes to mailbox. This is > > particularly a problem for IMAP because losing your internet connection > > (e.g. sleeping your laptop) usually means losing mailbox changes. If > > there is a mechanism for accomplishing this now please let me know. > > Otherwise, it seems natural for it to be an action during mail check? > > Shouldn't there be at least an auto save/recover mechanism? > > Hi, > > Personally, I'd use screen :)
I do use screen, but it doesn't help for this problem when you are running mutt locally and not on a remote machine via ssh access. Marc
