Re: marking a message as "read"

[Kevin J. McCarthy]

On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 03:23:05PM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:

I've some confusion about "read" and "unread" versus "old" and "new".

There are status flags for new and old. Unread messages seem to be new, but if I read a message it doesn't acquire an "(O)ld" flag, though it loses its "(N)ew" flag.

Both "new" and "old" are "unread".  "read" means neither new nor old.

I've skimmed the manual, and i can't see what the criteria are for considering a message New or Old.

<toggle-new> also works, but it follows the path:
  old  ==>  new  <==>  unread

$mark_old controls this when exiting a mailbox. You can also manually toggle "old" via <set-flag> or <clear-flag>. An old message will be toggled to new. new/unread toggle between each other.

It's easy to find these messages, but I can't see how to mark them as "read". I can mark threads and subthreads as read, but not individual messages.

  <tag-pattern>~U<enter><tag-prefix-cond><clear-flag>O


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<toggle-new> and <set-flag>/<clear-flag> work for individual messages as well as tagged ones. If you have both "new" and "old" messages in the mailbox and want to clear both of them (marking them as read), I would suggest using something like Clearing "old" will actually set both "new" and "old" messages to "read".

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