On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 07:32:41PM +0200, Mikko Hänninen wrote:
> 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.
I do that often. Mut can be configured to don't tag messages as
OLD. The line is:
set nomark_old
> 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.
I was looking here what happens. When a message is flagged as new it
has no "Status:" line.
> 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.
What's the difference between the patched version behaviour and the
non-patched version behaviour?
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