> 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 sure would annoy you a great deal more.
Ok, but when is the N flag going to dissapear? PS. Sorry about this ugly reply but I'm not on the list
