On Tuesday, 23 June 2009 at 23:17, Rocco Rutte wrote: > Hi, > > * Derek Martin wrote: > > > For what it's worth, the way I would most prefer to process my mail > > would be like this: > > > 1. start mutt > > 2. enter first mailbox (in order listed in .muttrc) which contains > > new mail. > > 3. move to the next mailbox in listed order *in a ring* containing > > new mail (i.e. if you move on from the first mail folder, change > > to the next one in the list with new mail, returning to the first > > mailbox after you've gone through all the others in the list with > > new mail). > > 4. repeat until there are no mailboxes containing new mail > > 5. move to first mailbox containing *unread* (but not new) mail *in a > > ring* > > 6. repeat until no mailboxes contain unread mail > > You "would" as in "you would but cannot"? What's missing? Is that a vote > for including the patch adding $next_unread_mailbox?
For many months mutt has had a 'next-unread-mailbox' command, which treats the buffy list as a ring. I think the only thing missing is a flag that allows the user to choose whether or not to skip mailboxes with old mail.
