On Jun 23 21:00, Moritz Barsnick wrote: > Hi Derek, list, > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:33:59 -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > > For what it's worth, the way I would most prefer to process my mail > > would be like this: > > Thanks for this. It pretty much conforms to my work model. > > > nagging the user about new mail in folders they visited recently (you > > would, of course, set mark_old). > > The new work model is a large change for myself. If I have no choice, I > will have to go along and do it that way. I agree that keeping mails > marked as "new" does not allow differentiation between "now but seen" and > "new and not yet seen". But it has worked for me so well for such a > long time. Like you, I don't go to the length to mark/flag emails once > I've seen them, even at work using Outlook. I just take notice of them, > and make sure I go through everything which is still marked new later. > I can't go through the pain of marking tens or hundreds of new mails as > "check later".
Isn't there a chance to have an option to switch to the old or new behaviour by user's choice? Even if the old behaviour is thought of as a bug, the old behaviour was nice, not illogical, and quite a lot of people, including myself, got used to it and would like to keep using it since their usage model of mutt is based on it. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Project Co-Leader Red Hat
