[Dovecot] FOLDER INTERNAL DATA (uw pine header)

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 15:35 -0500, Charles Gregory wrote:
> But even if it works as described above, it would not be a consistent 
> timestamp of when someone last read their mailbox. It looks like dovecot
> updates the ~/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log with each read, even 
> via pop3, so I should be okay using that.... I can then just use a snip 
> of code to check whether that file or the pseudo-message from Alpine is 
> 'newer'.....

The dovecot.index.log isn't modified unless something has actually
changed.

> > Maybe the difference is that Alpine writes the pseudo message also when 
> > creating the mailbox (or when selecting the created empty mailbox).
> 
> Alpine actually updates the message with each read. In particular, it 
> updates the "X-IMAP:" line.....

Huh? What does it write there? It should update it only when there have
been new messages, not on every read..

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