Re: mailbox being modified
Jean-Pierre Radley wrote: [Sat Jul 28 2007, 01:17:55PM EDT]
> Aron Griffis typed (on Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 08:08:58AM -0400):
> | Jean-Pierre Radley wrote: [Sat Jul 28 2007, 12:41:18AM EDT]
> | > I'm really scratching my head trying to find out how the mailbox could be
> | > modified.
> |
> | What storage format? Is the mail stored locally to the machine in an
> | mbox or maildir?
>
> Mail is stored locally in /var/spool/mail/user_name.
A message in mbox format is considered read when it has the header:
Status: RO
The MTA does not strip this header, so it is possible to send somebody
a message which appears to already have been read, if they store their
mail in mbox format. Normally, of course, MUAs (including mutt) don't
do this.
You could try looking for this header in the mail spool when you
aren't running mutt, to see if that's the problem.
Aron