Felipe --

...and then Felipe Contreras said...
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% >The reason mutt does this is that a number of new mail notifier programs
% >(such as xbiff and pals) use the modification time to detect the arrival
% >of new mail. If mutt did modify the mtime, then everytime you (for
% >example) deleted an email, you would be notified of having new mail,
% >which I'm sure would annoy you a great deal more.
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% Ok, but when is the N flag going to dissapear?

When the atime is equal to or later than the mtime; see the mutt manual
for more details.


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% PS. Sorry about this ugly reply but I'm not on the list

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