MUAs and atime/ctime (was Re: rsync and atime preserve)

[Bradley M. Kuhn]

Martin Pool wrote:
 
> It seems pertinent to ask if anyone knows whether changing the ctime
> rather than the atime will make the mail agents any happier about the file
> being unmodified?  There's no point implementing it if it won't solve the
> problem.

I use mutt, and when I use my preserve-atime-patch, things work right.
Without it, things don't (mutt thinks none of my new mailboxes have new
mail after I rsync them).



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