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noatime and mail programs

Posted Aug 9, 2007 12:26 UTC (Thu) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)
Parent article: Once upon atime

I'm pretty sure the noatime incompatibility with mail programs shows up only when using a single-file mailbox format (usually mbox). Yet another reason to use maildir instead.

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Posted Jun 2, 2012 22:52 UTC (Sat) by mirabilos (subscriber, #84359) [Link]

I believe it’s exactly the other way round, split-into-files formats would have issues with this.

noatime and mail programs

Posted Jun 3, 2012 18:19 UTC (Sun) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Experimenting a bit, the unread flag is marked by files being in the new/ directory in maildir. So maildir seems that the common implementation wouldn't care about atime at all.