Re: timestamp of mailbox file is not updated

[Thomas Roessler]

On 2001-07-10 19:08:27 -0500, Andy Spiegl wrote:

>> >> hamster:~>l testmailbox
>> >> -rw-------    1 spiegl   users       26537 Feb 20 20:57 testmailbox
>[...]
>> >> hamster:~>l testmailbox
>> >> -rw-------    1 spiegl   users       26579 Feb 20 20:57 testmailbox
>[...]
>> >> hamster:~>l testmailbox
>> >> -rw-------    1 spiegl   users       18153 Feb 20 20:57 testmailbox

>Only the size of the mailbox changes, but not the timestamp.

>By the way you are also wrong about the proof of the 60 seconds. :-)
>I had done this test not 5 months ago, but very recently.  Only the
>timestamp of the file is from February!

OK, I see. ;-)

In order to remove this behaviour, you'd just have to comment out 
lines 960-965 in mbox.c.

However, this has obviously been done deliberately (and a very long 
time ago), so I won't just remove this code...

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