The reason mutt does this is that a number of new mail notifier programs
(such as xbiff and pals) use the modification time to detect the arrival
of new mail. If mutt did modify the mtime, then everytime you (for
example) deleted an email, you would be notified of having new mail,
which I'm
Felipe --
...and then Felipe Contreras said...
%
% The reason mutt does this is that a number of new mail notifier programs
% (such as xbiff and pals) use the modification time to detect the arrival
% of new mail. If mutt did modify the mtime, then everytime you (for
% example) deleted an
Hi,
I really don't get this guys, why mutt whouldn't modify a timestamp after
modifying a mbox! And the worst is that it rely on the timestamps to know
when there are new msgs.
So tell me, is it normal to always get a N flag on all the mboxes until
the timestamps are externally modified?
If
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 10:28:41PM -0600, Felipe Contreras wrote:
Hi,
I really don't get this guys, why mutt whouldn't modify a timestamp after
modifying a mbox! And the worst is that it rely on the timestamps to know
when there are new msgs.
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The reason mutt does this is that a
