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Re: Wishlist: Unread mail indication



On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 09:48:39PM +0000, Paul Walker wrote:
> For some mailbox types - mbox, for example - it would involve re-reading
> the mailbox every time. This would make things rather slow.
I forgot to mention that these are all IMAP mailboxes. Sorry for the
omission.
> 
> Other mailbox types might not have to do that; I'm not familiar with
> them. I can't imagine it could be done without *some* degree of
> re-reading, though.
> 
> It's possible that read_only might not change the access time, although
> I doubt it. Might be worth a try (I can't test it at the moment).
> 
> --
> Paul



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