On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 01:31:02PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 07:03:23AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 03:45:06PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > > > Just a quick grep through the docs reveals: > > > > When changing folders, Mutt fills the prompt with the first folder from > > the mailboxes list containing new mail (if any), pressing <Space> will cycle > > through folders with new mail. The (by default unbound) function > > <next-unread-mailbox> in the index can be used to immediately open the > > next folder with unread mail (if any). > > > > Could you try that, and see what happens? > > > I will, I have been playing with this quite a lot recently. Currently > I have:- > > set mail_check_recent=no > set mark_old=no > > and 'c' doesn't seem to find N[ew] or [O]ld mail - so what *does* it do > that's remotely useful? I'll try assigning a key to next-unread-mailbox > and see what that does for me. > It does what I want (and have always wanted).
I have added:- bind index n next-unread-mailbox ... and now I can find new mail in all my (mbox) mailboxes without any stupid requirements for setting access times or whatever to the files. I always thought it should be simple and it is! Why isn't this the default set-up for mutt? It is somewhat slower than 'c' but not really significantly so where all my mail is in local mbox files. -- Chris Green