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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Leaving Mailbox Unchanged?
Message-ID: <7827@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 27 Feb 89 00:11:09 GMT
References: <318@wubios.wustl.edu> <471@ispi.UUCP>
Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <471@ispi.UUCP> jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) writes:

>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.

This means, of course that it only knows which messages are newer than
the last time you quit elm.  It would be nice if it worked more like
rn which keeps track of which articles you have actually seen so that
if you quit without reading everything, the unread messages would still
be new.

Les Mikesell