On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 00:54 +0200, David Haller wrote:
Hello,
On Tue, 01 Jun 2010, Greg Freemyer wrote:
And Ted's post you linked to says Mutt breaks if you simply switch to noatime without in some way reconfiguring Mutt. (He doesn't provide details as to how to fix Mutt.)
==== mutt/manual.txt ==== Note: new mail is detected by comparing the last modification time to the last access time. Utilities like biff or frm or any other program which accesses the mailbox might cause Mutt to never detect new mail for that mailbox if they do not properly reset the access time. Backup tools are another common reason for updated access times. ====
Odd. access != modification. Backup should only care about changes, not simple accesses that do not change the thing accessed. I wonder if the docs match the program. Perhaps what they mean by access is modification, and are just being imprecise in the description. I would be sorely disappointed in any software that detected changes because I had looked at - but not changed - something. I wonder about the mutt method. If an independent program that had nothing to do with showing me mail accessed (no change) a mail message file before mutt did, mutt would not detect that it was new? Or does mutt also say that no other software can look at (not change) the mail files? -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org