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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: How to make KMail play nice with mutt and procmail
From:       Michael =?iso-8859-1?q?H=E4ckel?= <haeckel () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-02-03 19:34:37
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On Sunday 03 February 2002 12:15:12, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
>
> A script would certainly change the mtime. That's why we should check

If it's a script that is written to interact with mutt, maybe it doesn't. I 
don't know...

> both, mtime and filesize. As mutt seems to be the only program which
> doesn't change the mtime only mutt users will ever have a chance to get
> into trouble if mtime and filesize are accidentally the same although
> the file was changed. I won't even try to give you an exact calculation
> of the probability because this is highly non-trivial (even for someone
> who studied maths like me) but it almost certainly much less than
> 1:4000.

It's probably a Poisson distribution.

Nevertheless, I still prefer to say it's not supported before implementing 
such hacks.

Regards,
Michael Häckel


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