Thanks in advance.
Vijay G.
Does the old-fashioned way (difference mtime vs. atime) work for you?
[After sending test email]
% ls -l /var/spool/mail/bern
-rw------- 1 bern root 518 2005-02-16 22:00 /var/spool/mail/bern
% ls -lu /var/spool/mail/bern
-rw------- 1 bern root 518 2005-02-16 20:00 /var/spool/mail/bern
[Note differing timestamps]
[After opening INBOX (not the test email!) with uw-imapd & Mozilla]
% ls -l /var/spool/mail/bern
-rw------- 1 bern root 0 2005-02-16 22:10 /var/spool/mail/bern
% ls -lu /var/spool/mail/bern
-rw------- 1 bern root 0 2005-02-16 22:10 /var/spool/mail/bern
Regards,
J. Bern