On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 03:04:17PM -0800 or thereabouts, Joshua Haberman wrote:
> For some reason, mutt fails to display the "N" next to folders with new
> messages in them on the folder index. The default folder_format string
> begins with %N and should do the trick, and I additionally tried
> manually setting the folder_format to include a %N but to no avail: no
> N ever appears.
I have intermittent problems with this kind of thing. It's not total:
sometimes some folders in the file browser have N and others don't,
although they both appear to have had new email in them recently
enough that mutt should have picked up on them. I hadn't posted it
because I can't provide much of a clearer explanation than that
and I can't narrow it down: but it's not just you :)
As you say, the N is displayed correctly by messages when I'm looking
at a particular mailbox. It's the file browser that's odd.
Only thing I have particularly noticed is that it is less common
when I start mutt: it seems to get it right then. It's more noticeable
when I have, as is my habit, left mutt running in a window and new
mail has arrived and procmail has put it in places whilst mutt is
still running.
Dunno on your netiquette question :)
Telsa
