Dave Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Fri, 14 Jan 2000:
> Hmm, actually, that's a thought. I wonder if it would be possible to come up
> with a little patch for mutt that, given a preference setting, would do the
> equivalent of "touch -m" if you leave a folder while messages still have the
> "N" flag.
I don't think you can leave a folder with messages still having the "N"
flag in there, Mutt will change those messages into old ("O"). The only
way to not update the status is first to sync the folder (with '$'), and
then toggle it read-only so that Mutt won't update it on folder exit.
You can have $mark_old as unset, but I *think* (I forget the details)
this only means that both "old" and "new" messages are shown as new.
There is a patch, which I'm using, that makes $mark_old into a
quadoption so that you can specify ask-no or ask-yes also. It also
makes Mutt keep track of new/old messages even if it's set to "yes".
(If I remember right... It's been awhile since I looked into this.)
Since I'm using Maildir folders, I don't know how it would behave
with incoming mbox format folders, but I suspect the timestamps will
not reflect whether there are any new messages in the folder or not.
Mikko
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