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Re: atime/mtime



Hi,

* Patrick Shanahan wrote:

> One think I find lacking is a flag in the
> directory listing similar to the "N", new mail flag, showing folders
> containing "O", old mail.  I want to know where *unread* mail is, not
> *just* new mail.

This is not as easy at it sounds. At least (unfortunately) not without 
full parsing with mbox which is bad. For maildir you'd have to walk the 
cur/ subdirectory which can be huge and or painfully slow with a slow  
FS. "Just new mail" is well defined so that checking folders is really 
cheap.

Rocco