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mutt and BUFFY_SIZE



On Feb 24, Frederic Peters <fpeters@debian.org> wrote:

 >>  >What are the advantages of --enable-buffysize ?
 >> It's a workaround for some broken systems, I enabled it because some
 >> people asked for it.
 >> Please let me know if this causes any problem.
 >
 >Actually it causes problem with the way I work with mutt:  I have two
 >instances open and mailboxes I read in one instance are not marked as
 >read in the other one.
 >
 >Since this is particular to the way I use mutt and I don't know how it
 >behaves on broken system without the option I can't tell it's worth
 >going back to the previous state (if it was only me it would...).
Can somebody provide more info about what BUFFY_SIZE is supposed to fix?
Lacking a good argument I will disable it again in the next release,
because I consider the behaviour explained by Frederic very useful.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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