According to Lenny Mastrototaro:
> On Apr 2, 12:19am, William Burrow wrote:
> > Subject: Re: maildir and "You have new mail"
> >
> > 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?
Well this would be the same as less'ing or grepping the mailbox of the
user if it was in mbox format, thereby changing the atime on the mailbox.
This would not hurt. I am only interested in a quick way for shells and
status-bars (of the window managers) to indicate when new mail arrives,
without stat()ing all files in the maildir directory constantly.
Mike.
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Indifference will certainly be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?
