* On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, John Iverson wrote: > > The only known issue (afaik) about Mutt *not* reporting new > > mail is when the user has "unset mark_old" in their > > configuration. In this case a message that would ordinarily be > > marked as old is still new, but won't be detected with the file > > modification/access time heuristic. > > I don't know if it's related, but I've noticed the following > behavior which was briefly discussed here before: When you switch > from Mailbox A (index or pager view) to the folder list view, > Mutt won't show the N flag next to Mailbox A when there is new > mail in it. It doesn't seem to matter whether the new mail was > already there or if it arrives while in folder list view. If you > then switch to Mailbox B and back to folder view, the N flag for > Mailbox A works again (but now Mailbox B has the same issue). > > Can anyone say whether this is a feature or bug? I'm using > Maildir folders with "set mark_old=no", if that's relevant.
How about this question, then: Does anyone's Mutt correctly indicate new mail in Mailbox A in the above scenario? If it's normal behavior and not a bug in my setup, I suspect Mutt considers that you are still viewing Mailbox A until you choose another one, and this has something to do with it. But the mailbox browser screen is misleading in this case, to me. Maybe a special "current mailbox" symbol next to Mailbox A would be better than just nothing, which wrongly indicates the lack of new mail. -- John
