Re: timestamp of mailbox file is not updated

[Thomas Roessler]

On 2001-07-10 19:08:27 -0500, Andy Spiegl wrote:

>By the way you are also wrong about the proof of the 60 seconds. 
>:-) I had done this test not 5 months ago, but very recently. 
>Only the timestamp of the file is from February!

Thinking about it, the code in question makes sure that an mbox 
folder's mtime is always the point of time at which the last message 
was _added_ to the folder.

Might be helpful with some naive new-mail checking programs, but of 
course breaks mechanisms which really look for mailbox updates.

Mh...

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