Derek --
...and then Derek D. Martin said...
% On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 09:41:33PM -0400, David T-G wrote:
% >
% > I think that Brendan answered my question on this long ago, but it's my
% > understanding that the IMAP server decides whether to mark the message
% > 'O'ld or not and that mutt has nothing to do with it and can't fix it
% > like we'd like -- and that the spec is for the server to change it thus,
% > so either I misremembered the performance on my box or the SysAdmin
% > upgraded the IMAP server to one (or a version of the same) that no longer
% > failed to implement that standard.
%
% That doesn't seem to be the case -- I unset mark_old and it does
% indeed not mark the messages old.
Hey, cool. That may not help you, but it's enormously helpful for me :-)
What IMAP server are you using? I wonder if, in this respect, they are
different.
%
% This does not fix my problem though, because mutt for some reason
% doesn't realize that the folder still has new mail in it, unless I
% actually exit mutt and restart it.
Oh, now that's a new wrinkle. Hmmm... What if you change to a local
folder (thus breaking your IMAP connection, I should think) and then
back?
%
% Oh well.
Best of luck :-)
%
%
% > % mailers, such as netscape for example, behave in this way; i.e. there
% > % is no differentiation between new mail and old unread mail.
% >
% > Even with IMAP? Hmmm...
%
% Definitely.
So I see. Now to go back and try IMAP for my purposes...
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