Re: does mhonarc do a directory listing?

[Earl Hood <earl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Jym Dyer <jym@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> =v= I handle a similar situation like this:  do a directory-wide
> operation, then record the directory's modification date.  Next
> time around, check the directory's modification date and skip
> the operation if it hasn't changed.  In this situation, that way
> you would know that the last message hasn't changed since the
> previous operation, so you can skip the directory read.

Not sure this will work for all OSs.

Modifying code to remember last message number is
straight-forward and independent of any file system that
may be in use.

--ewh