* Am Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 11:47:18AM -0500 , schrieb David T-G: > % > * Am Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 03:45:02PM +0200 , schrieb Michael Tatge: > % > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) muttered: > ... > % > > > I start mutt with the -y option to see which mailboxes contain new mails. > % > > > If I enter a mailbox which was marked with a "N" , all mails in this > > So you do see an 'N' in the browser view, then. > > > % > > > mailbox are marked with an "O" instead of an "N". > > Hokay; you must have been here before and then exited with $mark_old set. > > > % > > > % > > set mark_old=no if you don't like this behaviour. I did. :) > % > > > % > But that is not what i wanted. When mark_old=no, the old unread messages > % > seem to be new too. But there are Messages in my mailbox which weren't > % > there when I ran mutt the last time. And these are marked with an "O" > % > instead of an "N". Understand ? > > So you had, say, messages one through four in your mailbox. When you > return, they as well as a new message five are all marked old, even > though you've never before laid eyes on message five. Correct? > Correct. Message one through four are morked "O" when I haven't read them and marked not if I have read them. This is how i want it. But message five is marked "O" although I never laid eyes on it.
> If so, that is quite interesting. Do you ever see 'N'ew mails in any > folder? Are you using procmail or any other filtering software which > might be writing a Status: or X-Status: header? > I see "N"ew mails in my spool but not in the mutt-user mbox. And i am using procmail, but it doesn't write Status or X-Status headers And I see "N"ew mails in the folder-list. > What type of mailfolder are you using? For a folder =mybox, what do you > see when you run "ls -lF $MAIL/mybox"? > I use mbox folders. chris@trillian:~$ ls -lF Mail/mutt-users -rw-rw---- 1 chris users 425032 9. Apr 18:58 Mail/mutt-users chris@trillian:~$ ls -lF /var/spool/mail/chris -rw-rw---- 1 chris mail 15628 9. Apr 19:07 /var/spool/mail/chris > What if, assuming it's an mbox folder, you (after first copying the > mailbox to a temp mailbox to avoid corruption!) edit the file and > remove any Status: and X-Status: fields you find and then run mutt on > that folder? Are the messages still old, or are they finally new? > They are all new. > > % > Or are the mailboxes opened when starting mutt with -y ? That would > % > explain why mutt thinks the mailbox was opened before. > > No, they aren't; see the oft-recurring "why doesn't mutt tell me I have > new mail?" and "can mutt tell me how many new mails I have?" discussions > for more on this. > > Greetings Christoph > HTH & HAND > > :-D > -- > David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles > (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie > (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! > -- gpg fingerprint: 88DA B106 D973 B2AF 7CCB 725A F76C 803C 758F 71C0
