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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#45545: marked as done (Mail disappears from inbox) by Carsten Burghardt <cb@magic-shop.de>
From:       Don Sanders <sanders () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-08-05 5:09:18
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On Wednesday 31 July 2002 10:11, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
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> On Tuesday 30 July 2002 07:27, Don Sanders wrote:
> > On Tuesday 30 July 2002 07:37, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > > If now someone modified the mbox file then the mtime of the
> > > mbox file would be different from the mtime which is stored in
> > > the index file. This means the index file and the mbox file are
> > > out of sync and we have to regenerate the index file. Do I miss
> > > something?
> >
> > I see what you mean now.
> >
> > This is based on your observation that mbox files have the right
> > mtime but index file do not, right? I'm skeptical this
> > observation tells the whole story. Perhaps the mbox files had the
> > right time because they were large files and took longer to
> > write. Does your observation hold for small files?
>
> Yes, I only tested this with a folder containing only five test
> messages. The mtime of the mbox file was always correct. I will
> check if the mbox file and the index file are written differently.

> There must be a reason why it works for the mbox files but not for
> the index files.

I guess I would like to know what that reason is before relying on 
this characteristic of the index file time being right and the mbox 
time being unreliable.

Don Sanders

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