Hi Sam, > Suppose I have received new emails in the system mailbox > (e.g. /var/spool/mail/theuser), and I read those new emails using > `mailx`. When I quit mailx using `q`, the read emails will be moved to > ~/mbox. However, when I open ~/mbox using `mailx -f`, the emails that I > have just read in the system mailbox are marked as unread! > > I think it is surprising that the mail I have read are marked as unread > when they are moved to my ~/mbox. I don't think the BSDs' mailx have > this behavior. Is this a bug in GNU mailutils?
POSIX standard doesn't specify that the message state should be preserved when saving the message to another mailbox. If I read it correctly, it is left to the implementation to decide. That being said, I agree that preserving the message state is logical and consistent with user's expectations. I'll see if it can be implemented. Regards, Sergey
