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David Wuertele <dave-gnus@bfnet.com> wrote:
> I have noticed that when leaving the group "dave-gnus@bfnet.com",
> EVERY ONE OF THE 14843 MARK FILES in
>
>   ~/mail/maildirs/dave-gnus@bfnet.com/.nnmaildir/marks/read/*
>
> gets modified.  Is that normal!?!

It should be only one file, with many hard links.  (Use ls -li to
check.)  Links may be created or removed when you exit a group, so the
hard link count and the ctime may change, but I would expect the mtime
to remain the same.  Exactly what do you see changing?


paul