Re: Mutt, unnoticed new mail and improper access/change times
Quoting Carel Fellinger (cfelling@iae.nl):
> Yep, that seems to be the tradition in Open Software Circles anyway,
> so be my guest:) I improved a bit on that recepy (better locking):
> | cat >>$FOLDER && touch -m -d "next sec" $FOLDER
Thanks - I've had to modify it slightly for a Sun because touch isn't
so clever, and it becomes either
cat >>$BOX && sleep 2 && touch -m $BOX
or, better locking but much worse looking,
cat >>$BOX && env TZ=EST touch -m -t `date +%Y%m%d%H%M.%S` $BOX
where EST is anywhere west of here.
Cheers,
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