On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 11:53:39PM +0100, Alessandro Selli wrote:
> On 02/12/18 at 17:23, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > You'd want to set noatime on every machine
> > you control.
>
>
>   Some mail servers and clients do use it to determine if a mail was
> read after it arrived.  In this case, it'd be better to have it set on /var.

That's no more. And, let me clarify: atime was used for mail:
* only with mbox (Maildir never suffered from this issue)
* only on the local machine
* only by the shell to say "You have new mail." vs "You have mail."
-- not even by the mail client

So the whole effort gave you just a single word in a message, that many
people even didn't notice.

And, popular local mail clients are already patched to update atime
explicitly.

Ie, atime for mail is an ex-reason.


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