On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 06:03:32PM +0100, Jostein Berntsen wrote: > On 15.12.11,11:56, Haines Brown wrote: > > I hope this is not a FAQ and does not seem too odd. > > > > I frequently check the mutt index for new messages (marked "N"). I > > mark some to be deleted ("D"), but put off reading other new > > messages until I can break from work at some point in the course > > of the day in order to process them all at one time. So I would > > like to change the new ("N") status of those messages to (" ") > > without having to view their content. Can this be done? > > > > You should be able to do this by doing "N" on the new message. > > Jostein
Jostein, once I realized that it had to be an upper case "N", rather than lower case which opens a search dialog, that was exactly what I wanted. Thanks, Haines