On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 09:59:40AM -0500, David T-G wrote: > % I'm trying to get a new message flag to display in front of my > % folder name in the folder index view. So I'm doing the following: > % > % set folder_format="%2C %N %8s %d %f" > > % I'm seeing: > % > % 10 66442 May 13 08:48 apache_users > > Hmmm... That says to me that your access-time timestamp has been updated > by something looking at the folder, be it biff or wnewmail or your shell > or even mutt.
How about trying a simple test to isolate where the problem is (i.e. is it a "set folder_format" problem, or is some other process messing with the timestamp): What happens if you remove the "set folder_format" from your .muttrc and then restart mutt? Will that make the "N" flag show up correctly?