On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 07:26:57AM +0200, Rejo Zenger wrote: > ++ 10/08/09 16:44 +0200 - Michael Tatge: > >> there is no automatic way to execute "$". i.e. save changes to > >> mailbox. This is particularly a problem for IMAP because losing your > >> internet connection (e.g. sleeping your laptop) usually means losing > >> mailbox changes. > > > >No, there isn't. And that's a good thing (TM). I don't want messages to > >be auto deleted. > > No messages will be "auto deleted". > > The only thing that happens is that messages you earlier have marked as > "to be deleted" will be actually deleted. Or better, any changes you > have made to the status of the message is comitted. The behaviour > wouldn't be any different from exiting a mailbox or pressing "$". > > And, in the spirit of mutt, such a setting would be configurable. One > can turn it on or off and set the interval. > > I can't think of a reason why this would be bad (especialy if it's > configurable and the default is "off").
Thanks Rejo, I'm glad that I'm not the only one that would see this as a valuable feature. For now--per Michael's suggestion, I have covered most of the cases with the following macros: macro index <return> <display-message><sync-mailbox> macro compose y <send-message><sync-mailbox> macro pager q <exit><sync-mailbox> This doesn't cover N -> O flag changes but at least I'm not losing reply and read flags. Marc