On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Andy Spiegl wrote:

> > I hope I can make this clear, when mutt modifies a file (mbox) it
> > doesn't update the timestamps.
> Sure, I know this problem very well and started a long thread about this,
> but in the end I was told that it's not a bug, but a feature.  I still
> don't understand why and keep thinking that it's a bug.  But there seem to
> be too many people out there that like that way because a lot of (in my
> opinion broken) programs make use of it and so it won't be changed.

Perhaps your patch should be included in the standard distribution as a
user-configurable option?

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