On 2009-04-24, Grant Edwards <inva...@invalid> wrote:
> Anybody writing to an mbox mailbox has to follow the rules if
> they expect to interoperate with other mail applications. If
> mailbox.mbox.add() doesn't preserve the atime when writing to
> an mbox, then mailbox.mbox.add is broken.
I should qualify that: since the documentation for add()
doesn't specify whether or not it's supposed to add a "new"
message or an "old" message, one could argue that either
behavior is correct.
However, since the maildir add() method adds a "new" message,
one would reasonably expect that the mbox add() method do the
same. Or, I suppose one might expect the converse: since mbox
add() creates an "old" message, then maildir add() should do
the same.
I have my filesystems mouted with the "noatime" option and use
maildir...
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