Eli wrote:
>Christian Balzer wrote:
[snip]
>The time on the "cur" folder would be another folder to check
>since it may be possible the user didn't get any new messages, but just took
>a read message and marked it for deletion or changed some other type of
>flag.
>
What makes "cur" so much more worthy of attention than any other folder?
The user could have moved/flagged/whatever thousands of mails in hundreds
of other folders w/o you ever noticing it with this scheme. The crux of
the matter is, as long as no new mail was delivered/read and the mailbox
is full, all this potential activity is worth naught.
Another thing is, one really wants to check for modify time and not
access time as I can see many potential read accesses (something building
indexes, etc) happening that are not client/user initiated. But an
actual write (in new) should originate only from Exim or the pop3/imap
server.
Regards,
Christian Balzer
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