mailbox.mbox.add() sets access time as well as modification time

Matthew Woodcraft matthew at woodcraft.me.uk
Tue Apr 28 16:59:13 EDT 2009


Chris Green wrote:
> Currently I run mutt on a remote server where I have to use maildir
> because their file systems are mounted noatime. I am moving to reading
> mail on my own Linux box just because I want to get back to mbox, [...]

For what it's worth, setting 'check_mbox_size = yes' is usually good
enough in practice to make Mutt happy with mbox on a noatime filesystem.

-M-



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