On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 03:45:06PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> 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.
>
You can check the option
mark_old
which when set to 'no' will always leave "seen" but not read messages as
old.
--
Nikola
