Marc --
...and then supio said...
% On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 02:08:24PM -0500, David T-G wrote:
% > % Every time i quit a mailbox containing new mails, the "N" flag of this
% > % mailbox is gone (in the mailbox index).
% >
% > Well, that's the function of quit as defined by default, so the
% > developers are pretty happy with your statement :-) At least, as long as
% > the "N" changes to "O" rather than changing to " ".
%
% That's correct and works fine :)
%
% But the real problem seems to be myself describing my wishes <bg>.
*grin*
%
% So with "quit" I actually meant changing to the "mailbox view" (with "c" and
% <tab><tab> by def., or -y on startup), where all mailboxes, given mutt with
% "mailboxes (...)" in the muttrc, are listed.
Ah; OK. That's an easy one; after you sync your mailbox changes, press
'%' to toggle mailbox write status. When you then 'c'hange to another
mailbox, nothing new gets written to the one you're leaving.
If you liked this behavior all of the time, you could even create a macro
(perhaps replacing 'c') that syncs, toggles, and then calls the change --
and might even hit <tab> for you as well :-)
%
%
% > % BTW: is it possible to see in the index if there are marked messages
% > % ("!" flag) in a mailbox?
% >
% > Before you open the mailbox with mutt, you mean? Not to my knowledge,
% > since mutt doesn't scan message headers until it's actually opening the
I might have to correct myself on this one, though the "to my knowledge"
part is still true. It's my understanding that Maildir folders write the
status info at the end of the name of the mail file rather than *in* it,
and so you don't have to open <n> files to see the stati but instead
merely scan the directory. I dunno if mutt supports this type of looking
and whether or not it's time consuming, but it's a better chance (if it
really exists as herein specified ;-) than an mbox...
% > mailbox (much to the chagrin of many folks who want to see boxes with new
% > mail that are being touched by other things like biff).
%
% Yeah, thats also my real problem with the "N" flags. :)
Ah. Gotcha.
%
% So mutt only looks on the timestamp of the mailbox if there are new
% mails and sets the N flag as long as it hasn't synced?
For the mail folder browser, that's basically it; mutt compares the
modification time (like when mail last dropped in) and the access time
(like when something -- including, and here's the kicker, a shell mailbox
watcher or biff or something like that -- last looked into the mailbox;
only if the mod time is newer does the box show as 'N' (which, from
another point of view, makes sense; the list isn't about unread mails in
the mailbox, since you've at least seen them, but about mail newer than
the last time you visited -- and so if you can't get through all of the
new mails in a folder in one read, tough luck for you :-)
%
% I have now 24 mailboxes and If there are new mails I often
% only look into what's there and quit mutt to read them later.
That's the problem :-)
% To open each mailbox the next time seeking the new mails is a bit
% annoying... ;)
Yep. I haven't figured out how to get around that, though, unless the
Maildir idea above might be useful...
%
%
% > If you want highlighting of flagged/marked messages once you're in the
% > mailbox, that's easy.
%
% I know but all would be nice "outside"...
Perhaps Maildir is the answer for this, too ... but it would very
probably require some coding on your own :-)
%
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