mutt shouldn't write back unchanged mh messages

2000-03-14 Thread Scott Schwartz
When reading an mh folder mutt 1.0.1 apparently loads every message, and, when you quit, writes every message back to disk. (Is that true for maildir too?) That's surely a bug, right? The whole point of one-file-per-message formats is that you only touch the data you need to, and leave the rest

Re: mutt shouldn't write back unchanged mh messages

2000-03-14 Thread Scott Schwartz
| Well, the files have to be at least renamed, because mh requires the filenames | be contiguous integers. No it doesn't. They usually are not. | IIRC, the message flags are also stored inside the | files, so mutt would have to rewrite the files to change the read, replied, | etc flags. It s