Tada! We have a winner. In order for a folder to be considered for a 'N' flag, it must be specified in the mailboxes command. That was what I was missing. Thanks a bunch to all.
-Mike On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 08:35:20PM +0200, Wojciech Krygier wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:20:04AM -0400, Mike Arrison wrote: > > Howdy, > > 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" > > > > Because according to the manual: > > %N N if folder has new mail, blank otherwise > > > > I'm seeing: > > > > 10 66442 May 13 08:48 apache_users > > > > Unfortunately, I never see an 'N' even though when I enter a folder, it > > clearly shows new messages (marked with an 'N') like so: > > > > 1 N May 12 12:05 XXXXXXXXXX (0.5K) XXXXXXXXXX > > > > How do I get that 'N' on the folder view to display? Thanks in advance. > > -Mike Arrison > > > > Is that folder specified as a mailbox with 'mailboxes' command ? > > Wojciech Krygier > > -- > Home is where the computer is plugged in.