On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 11:53:39PM +0100, Alessandro Selli wrote: > On 02/12/18 at 17:23, Adam Borowski wrote: > > You'd want to set noatime on every machine > > you control. > > > Some mail servers and clients do use it to determine if a mail was > read after it arrived. In this case, it'd be better to have it set on /var.
That's no more. And, let me clarify: atime was used for mail: * only with mbox (Maildir never suffered from this issue) * only on the local machine * only by the shell to say "You have new mail." vs "You have mail." -- not even by the mail client So the whole effort gave you just a single word in a message, that many people even didn't notice. And, popular local mail clients are already patched to update atime explicitly. Ie, atime for mail is an ex-reason. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Ivan was a wordly man: born in St. Petersburg, raised in ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ Petrograd, lived most of his life in Leningrad, then returned ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ to the city of his birth to die. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
