On Thu 02 Aug 2007, Matt McCutchen wrote: > On 8/2/07, Matthias Schniedermeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a single filesystem i don't mount noatime because mutt would work > > very good otherwise. > > IMHO, mutt is broken for relying on atimes because other programs > reading the mailbox will cause mutt to miss new mail. It would be
This is the way unix mail programs have determined the "new mail" state for a long time... If some other program reads the mailbox file, then presumably that's also a mail program, so then the new mail has been seen by some other means and it's not a problem that mutt doesn't flag the new mail. Having a backup program do the same is indeed not what you want... I must say that I'm hard-pressed to come up with another way of figuring out whether there's new mail, aside from switching to Maildir format. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
