On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 05:23:42PM +0100, Michael Tatge wrote: > * On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 02:20PM +0000 chombee (chom...@lavabit.com) muttered: > > I've noticed that mutt doesn't seem to write changes to my local > > maildirs until I hit $ or change maildirs. Is there a way to get it to > > automatically write changes to a local maildir? > > Simply put - no. > You could write macros that do [someaction]<sync-mailbox> eg. > <delete-message><sync-mailbox> but that's obviously dangerous.
Ah well, I'll just have to get used to pressing $. I'm kind of surprised that mutt doesn't automatically save changes after a timeout, as in the autosave feature of most text editors, although come to think of it only GUI text editors do that.
