On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 06:57:38PM +0100, Axel Bichler wrote:

> No, not necessarily. Mutt could save the filesizes. If the size has
> changed, new mail has arrived. Counting new mails could be pretty fast, if
> the program would skip the known part (old size) of the mbox file and
> parse the file from that point on.

Mailbox sizes change for reasons other than new mail.

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