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?