On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 09:46:16PM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día miércoles, julio 19, 2017 a las 12:00:49p. m. -0700, Timothy Knox 
> escribió:

> > > With $ (reload folder) or c (change folder).
> > 
> > But see this counterpoint: ;-)
> > 
> > http://tdk.hates-software.com/2008/03/19/04b81324.html
> 
> I would not count this as a bug in mutt, but a feature. The real actual
> function of $ in index is 'save changes to mailbox' and if mutt detects
> that the mailbox was modified (due to incoming new mails), it can not do
> this.

I wonder if this is true in all cases; I would think that a sync
operation might be safe in the case of file per message formats like
Maildir, and possibly over IMAP as well?

I do not find this as much of a problem as the person who wrote the post
above. However, I have a few specific incidents where mail is flooding
in very fast, where it does become very difficult to successfully run
<sync-mailbox>

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