On Monday 28 September 2009 22:21:48 Rick Stevens wrote: > Uh, doesn't "ls" show the mtime (modify time) by default? AIUI, reading a file is an access - in fact if you open a text file anywhere on your computer then close it without any change you will see the timestamp get updated. That does not mean it has been written to. > So the file > IS being written to in some manner, No, it does not mean that. > even if the size isn't changing. If > I were to change every occurrence of the digit "4" with "5" in a file > and saved the modified version, the size wouldn't change but the mtime > would. > Irrelevant > I think the OP said that it appeared that the current message number was > being updated. A big message number (5 or 6 digits) would take a while > to require a sixth or seventh digit, thereby changing the file size. > The message numbers are not in that file, so his comment is an impossibility. > This is all a bit off the point, though. kmail seems to work fine for > most people (I'm a Thunderbird user myself, but I'm weird). This may be > a case where a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. > Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase
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