[Patch #1514544 by David Watson] use fsync() to ensure data is really on disk
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 986ec06..3aa5ff3 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -100,6 +100,10 @@
   weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
   objects.
 
+- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been physically
+  written to disk after calling .flush() or .close(). (Patch by David
+  Watson.)
+
 - Patch #1592250: Add elidge argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
 
 - Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork()