The other day I got the wise idea that I wanted to try something a little 
different in terms of managing e-mail on my 1-box system.  So I got to 
playing around with fetchmail.  Previously I was using KMail's internal POP 
routines to get my mail from various accounts.  In any event, I was able to 
get fetchmail to bring my remote mail an deposit it locally in 
/path/to/my/mail.

Once I got fetchmail working the way I wanted it to, I began working on a 
method by which to filter spam.  I had been using spamassassin and decided 
that I wanted to keep on using it.  So I started playing with procmail (as 
you can see I keep getting deeper).  Well, to make a long story a little 
longer, I got this to work.  Not only am I now able to filter my mail, I can 
move those items deemed to be spam to a special mailbox.

After this I got to thinking about taking mail from various mailing lists and 
sending them to their very own mailboxes.  No problem here.  I have procmail 
handling the distribution of everything.  Mail is coming in and being moved 
to the appropriate mailbox.

So what is the problem?  Well, I will get to that.  Let me preface my answer 
by reminding you that I am using KMail as my mail client.  Anyhow, when I get 
new mail, and this mail is sorted and sent to the appropriate mailboxes, when 
I go into KMail there is no indication that I have new mail in any mailbox 
other than my inbox.  Is there a way to ensure that all of the new mail that 
is in mailboxes other than inbox initially shows as being new?  Any help 
would be appreciated.  BTW:  I realize that this can all be done with KMail.  
I just wanted to see if I could do it the way I have described above.

-K
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