On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 09:49:24AM -0600, Aaron Schrab wrote:
> At 10:04 -0500 21 Feb 2000, David Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 12:06:22PM +0100, Thomas Roessler wrote:
> > > On 2000-02-20 10:41:45 -0500, David Shaw wrote:
> > > > I wonder if there is a way to approximate the mbox behavior with
> > > > maildir?
> > >
> > > Set mark_old.
> >
> > Well, that's not really approximating the mbox behavior.
>
> You might want to try the patch at
> <http://pug.schrab.com/ats.mark_old-1.1.2-1.diff>
>
> It separates the two functions of $mark_old. So, you can keep mark_old
> set, then unset see_old (the variable added by that patch). Then mutt
> will have messages marked as old internally, but it will treat them as
> new for everything but determining if the mailbox has new mail.
>
> At least, I'm pretty sure it'll work for that, I wrote it so I could use
> the oposite settings, and didn't think that these settings would be
> useful.
It does work. Thanks.
The weird thing is that when used this way it seems to be essentially
reinventing the option (removed, if I recall) for (when opening a
folder) pointing to the first unread message, or first new message.
For example, if I set see_old then the pointer starts at the first new
message. If I unset see_old then the pointer starts at the first
unread message.
David
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