On Sat, Jun 23, 2001, Philip Guenther wrote:
Um, if new mail came in, then the mailbox *should* be marked as "new"!
Someone bored this weekend? :) I thought this was covered in my original
message?
I think you need to be still more precise in your description of the
sequence of events that leads to an incorrect 'mailbox has new mail' flag.
For the sake of correcting a possible bug in Procmail, I can get more
descriptive if you so wish. However, considering that I have resolved my
problem, I don't see the need to bore the list with such details. I'll
leave the choice up to you though.
Advances in file system technology, such as soft updates for Berkeley
FFS, can mitigate this effect, but such advances are not widely
deployed.
Just an FYI for those interested. Solaris 7+ also has a similiar feature
that can be enabled using the mount option 'logging'. If anyone is
interested in hard numbers, let me know. I'll toss some numbers your way
privately.
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Robert Hough (rch(_at_)solveinteractive(_dot_)com)
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