a puzzlement

2009-04-18 Thread Paul E Condon
I just posted a question about dates on emails. When I exited Mutt after sending it I noticed a feature of Mutt that has long puzzled me and I decided to ask what about it: When Mutt closes, it invariable issues the message: Mailbox is unchanged. This message regardless of how much or how

Re: a puzzlement

2009-04-18 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:53:39AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I just posted a question about dates on emails. When I exited Mutt after sending it I noticed a feature of Mutt that has long puzzled me and I decided to ask what about it: When Mutt closes, it invariable issues the message:

Re: a puzzlement

2009-04-18 Thread David Champion
* On 18 Apr 2009, Paul E Condon wrote: When Mutt closes, it invariable issues the message: Mailbox is unchanged. Do you sync-mailbox before you quit or exit? Mailbox is unchanged means that no messages were changed since the last sync. (It doesn't count changes since startup, just changes

Re: a puzzlement

2009-04-18 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-04-18_12:05:51, David Champion wrote: * On 18 Apr 2009, Paul E Condon wrote: When Mutt closes, it invariable issues the message: Mailbox is unchanged. Do you sync-mailbox before you quit or exit? Mailbox is unchanged means that no messages were changed since the last sync.

Re: a puzzlement

2009-04-18 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-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

Re: a puzzlement

2009-04-18 Thread Paul E Condon
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,