On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 11:28:09PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > 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? > Yes (not the OP here though), however it has always seemed odd to me that I can't get mutt to take me to all/any mailboxes which have *unread* mail in them. I.e. I want 'c' to take me to the next mailbox with unread mail in it, *not* to the next mailbox with new mail in it.
-- Chris Green
