On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 03:37:45PM -0800, John Magolske wrote: > After doing an rsync backup, the "N" preceding mailboxes with new mail > is removed from all mailboxes. I suppose this is a result of the mbox > files being touched somehow by the rsync process. Is there any way to > prevent this?
Use rsync -t. This preserves the file modification times on the mailboxes. Note that it may be possible that there will be a race condition causing mail folders which have mail delivered during the rsync to not show new mail. If this happens at all, it will most likely be pretty rare (i.e. it will still be much better than losing the N flag on *all* mailboxes every time). -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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