On 16 Oct 00, 11:31AM, Mikko Hänninen wrote:
> Note that this problem isn't unique to Maildirs, the mbox folders suffer
> from the same problem -- if there's new mail there in the folder, how
> can you tell if it's something you did download to the laptop and
> already deleted, or if it's something you've really not seen before?  So
> the same problem needs to be solved there.

sure, maildirs are certainly the way to go here; you can just
copy/compare/delete files, instead of needing something that can actually
change flags in an mbox, or delete messages &c. 

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