On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 09:02:37PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 02:54:29PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 11:06:25AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
[snip]
The date you see with an "ls -l" is called "mtime", time of last
modification of the entries data. If it happens to match your
directories time of creation (which is not stored) it is coincidence.
For a directory, its data is the list of files it contains. So mtime
should change whenever an entry is added or removed. Note, renaming
and entry is typically add an entry, the new name as a link, then
unlink the old name.
Try sorting the directories according to mtime with ls -lt (or -ltr
for reverse order).
You've missed the point (I think), in a maildir the directories whose
mtime dates change are the cur, new and tmp directories. The parent
directory whose name is the mailbox name never changes mtime (unless
you do something other than adding or removing messages). The maildir
directory doesn't contain any files that change, only cur, new and tmp
directories.
Obviously I don't use maildir :)
I {over}reacted to what I suspected was a common misconception
about "c"reate time being retained.
Sorry for the noise,
Jon
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