On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 04:53:50PM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote: > > I don't think this is Wu Yue's problem, Patrick. I could be wrong, > but as I understand him, he is opening a mailbox, leaving some of > the messages unread, then changing to another mailbox, then checking > to see which mailboxes contain new mail (perhaps with the y > command), and sees that the first mailbox has no N in front of it, > indicating that it contains no new messages, although in fact it > does.
Yes. But my problem remains after quit and restart mutt, the new marks of mailboxs are gone, no matter it contains new mails actually. On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 08:03:53PM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > If that is indeed the case, I believe it is a timing problem as I use > mbox and do see "N" for folders which have received mail after my > leaving. I do not know the amount of time necessary for this to occur > but can confirm that it does indeed happen. Also new mail appears in > the current folder periodically. > > It more likely is that he expects a folder with new mail to have the > "N" flag for the folder which contains new mail but not newer than his > last access to that folder. No, I expect the "N" flag always there, no matter the access time, if has new mail, than "N" should be always there. > > Now I hope I am making myself clear as I feel that I have my tongue > wrapped around my eye-teeth :^) Thank you very much for kindly patient! -- Hi, Wu, Yue
