Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ispi!jbayer
From: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Leaving Mailbox Unchanged?
Keywords: mailbox unchanged
Message-ID: <471@ispi.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 89 13:54:59 GMT
References: <318@wubios.wustl.edu>
Reply-To: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer)
Organization: Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
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In article <318@wubios.wustl.edu> david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) writes:
}In elm, when I use the Quit command, and have not deleted any messages,
}and leave my messages in the incoming mailbox, elm says: "Leaving
}Mailbox Unchanged".  However, when I reenter elm, it smartly know which
}messages I had already read and which are new, as evidenced by the 'N'
}next to the message description.
}
}If elm leaves the mailbox unchanged, how does it know which messages are
}new?  Does it actually make some change to the mailbox, or is there some
}other means?


Elm stores a zero-length file in .elm/last_read_mail.  Elm touches this
file and compares the date on the file with the dates for each piece of
mail.



JB
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