On Apr 2, 12:19am, William Burrow wrote:
> Subject: Re: maildir and "You have new mail"
> On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 07:19:42PM -0500, Lenny Mastrototaro wrote:
> > how are you going to stop a user from `innocently' updating the
> > atime of new/ with the following command?
> >
> > ls ~/Maildir/new
> ...
> > > But first I need an answer on the new/atime thing - from djb, I guess
> > > as he would be the final authority on this.
> >
> > DJB, please don't weaken the maildir protocol to the point where
> > I can't `safely' use ls(1).
>
> Why would someone do an ls on their Maildir? Just curious.
I occasionally do this to find the luser with the message
with a 20MB QuickTime attached.
Why should I write another tool when ls(1) does the job?
It would be different if I wanted to move or delete files,
but I think simple queries are reasonable to allow.
Regards,
Lenny
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