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From: david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Leaving Mailbox Unchanged?
Keywords: mailbox unchanged
Message-ID: <318@wubios.wustl.edu>
Date: 23 Feb 89 19:56:31 GMT
Organization: Washington University (St. Louis)
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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?
-David-
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