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documentation: Clarify restoreatime setting 

Better document what this actually does and that most people won't be
needing it.

(Especially as mount setting such as relatime|noatime now reduce the
amount of atime changes anyway)

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
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Sebastian Spaeth 2011-09-15 15:06:32 +02:00 committed by Nicolas Sebrecht
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Changelog.draft.rst
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@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ New Features
Changes
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* Documentation improvements concerning 'restoreatime' and some code cleanup
Bug Fixes
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offlineimap.conf
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@ -285,12 +285,12 @@ localfolders = ~/Test
sep = .
# Some users on *nix platforms may not want the atime (last access
# time) to be modified by OfflineIMAP. In these cases, they would
# want to set restoreatime to yes. OfflineIMAP will make an effort
# to not touch the atime if you do that.
# Some users may not want the atime (last access time) of folders to be
# modified by OfflineIMAP. If 'restoreatime' is set to yes, OfflineIMAP
# will restore the atime of the "new" and "cur" folders in each maildir
# folder to their original value after each sync.
#
# In most cases, the default of no should be sufficient.
# In nearly all cases, the default should be fine.
restoreatime = no