Jeremy --
...and then Jeremy M. Dolan said...
% I'm curious how mutt handles changed mbox's, exactly. Is this in a FAQ
% or other documentation anywhere? I'd look at the code, but I'm not all
...
%
% new one, which leads to me very often having 2 mutts open, and
% sometimes 3 or 4 as I forget to close one in a terminal in a screen or
...
%
% I'd like to know how it works so I can take whatever precautions
% nessisary not to screw up mutts view of the mbox and lose data.
The short form is that you can have as many mutts open on the current
mailbox as you wish; you just have to be aware that deleting a message
in one version and then syncing the working copy to disk will make that
message disappear in the other ones as soon as they notice (either at
keyboard activity or after $timeout seconds). If something is deleted out
of the middle, mutt will cry that the mailbox "was modified externally"
and warn that flags and things might be wrong. Appended mail, of course,
is a simple case.
The only trick, aside from the should-be-easy-but-all-too-often-isn't
requirement that you remember that you made the change in another window,
is to ensure that your system supports whatever locking method you've
chosen at mutt's configuration time. You can see this in `mutt -v`.
HTH & HAND
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