Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!vu-vlsi!dsinc!syd
From: syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Leaving Mailbox Unchanged?
Keywords: mailbox unchanged
Message-ID: <81@dsinc.UUCP>
Date: 25 Feb 89 16:28:17 GMT
References: <318@wubios.wustl.edu>
Reply-To: syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein)
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006
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In article <318@wubios.wustl.edu> david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) writes:
>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?
There is a file in the .elm directory called last_read_mail which
is used to determine if mail is new.  When you exit elm normally (ie
not with the x command), it updates the time on this file.

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