Scripsit Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Doing a "select all, and mark as read" on a multi-GB mbox file > sounds painful.
Indeed. Or just "mark the first (or any) message as read". If one's MUA is the version of mutt shipped with woody one gets twice the pain because it will *first* write the updated folder to /tmp and *then* try to move it to the final destination, usually in a home directory on another partition. :-( (I haven't checked whether this happens in sarge's mutt too). -- Henning Makholm "Det er trolddom og terror og jeg får en værre ballade når jeg kommer hjem!"