Dave Lorand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tue, 15 Feb 2000:
> Yes, with a little inconsistency with mutt -y: it jumped to the first
> unread message, which happened to be one marked with an "O" - that is,
> I had seen it in the listing before but hadn't gotten around to
> reading it.
I don't know about that. I don't use mutt -Z myself. I suspect the
functionality is the same as if you did:
mutt -y
pick first mailbox with new messages
go to first unread message (tab)
(Well, hmm, tab goes to new messages before old ones..)
> mutt -y given me a listing of mailboxes with an N next to
> the ones with new mail ("N" messages) but doesn't mark mailboxes which
> have "O" messages but no "N" messages.
Correct, the N flags says that you have *new* mail in there. Messages
with O flag (old) are unread but no longer new.
> Maybe this is normal, but I
> would prefer to have some "O" markings in the mailbox list as well.
Unfortunately that's not possible short of scanning through all of the
mail folders. Ie. practically impossible, you'd need to potentially
wait a very long time for the folder list to appear... There's no way
to determine if a folder contains any "old" messages short of parsing
it. It is, however, possible to determine whether there have been any
new messages added to it since it was last read, and this is what Mutt
does.
Regards,
Mikko
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