Re: timestamp of mailbox file is not updated

[Andy Spiegl]

> In order to remove this behaviour, you'd just have to comment out 
> lines 960-965 in mbox.c.
Ah, great.  Hm, but what will I break doing that? :-)

> 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.
Hm, that's what I noticed, too.  But I am wondering why this has to be this
way.  Deleting mails, changing the status etc. all are things that should
be reflected in the timestamp, shouldn't they?

> Might be helpful with some naive new-mail checking programs, but of 
> course breaks mechanisms which really look for mailbox updates.
I vote for removing the code.  (c:
Anyone objects?
 Andy.

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