On 2020-12-29T10:14:43-0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 11:34:23PM -0800, Akshay Hegde wrote:
> > Is this the expected behavior, or is this a bug?
>
> This is expected behavior. Mutt only performs new mail checking in the
> index. This prevents issues such as the message you are reading
> disappearing, or the mailbox closing (for IMAP) when you are reading mail.
>
Well that doesn't seem that bad. In fact, that's what most other mail
clients do as well. If the message is deleted on the server, (and this
can only happen if I have done so), I don't want to read the message
anyway. For any other updates inside the mailbox that I have open, it
would be nice if mutt keeps the pager open in this case but continues to
check for new mail.
Perhaps an option to control this behavior could be introduced?
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Akshay Hegde
