On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 02:01:47AM +0100, Marco wrote: > On 2012–12–20 Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > > You access the mail box and leave, then expect mutt to still show > > new mail. > > Yes, I do. If there is a new unread message in the mail box and I > enter and leave it is still contains an unread message that resides > in the .mailbox/new directory. I'm sorry that I still don't get it.
New mail is flagged with an N, old unread mail is flagged with an O, new mail is mail that has appeared in the "mailbox" *since* it was last opened/visited. If you leave/close a "mailbox" where there is mail flagged with an N, the flag will change to an O, this allows the distinction between New unread mail, and old unread mail. Is that any clearer? -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X
