how to use tar (was: Re: "Force" new mail in mailbox (mbox))
* On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 Spiro Trikaliotis (trik-news@xxxxxx) muttered:
> Background: On my machine, I do a nightly backup with tar. Obviously,
> this breaks mutt's ability to find out if there is a new message inside
> this mbox.
tell tar to not modify atime. tar --atime-preserve
HTH,
Michael
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