On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 12:10:09AM -0600, David DeSimone wrote:
> David Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I just started using maildirs instead of mbox files. Now, whenever I
> > leave a maildir, whether or not I made any changes, it always reports
> > "New mail in ...." from the maildir I just left. Any ideas why?
>
> A maildir has new mail iff there are files in its "new" subdirectory.
> Did you leave the folder with some messages still marked as "N"? If so,
> they are in the "new" subdir, and thus the maildir has new mail, even if
> you just left it.
>
> Mboxes don't operate that way; new mail is detected by checking the
> timestamp on the mbox file.
>
> Some people (like me) prefer the mbox method, where leaving a folder
> with new mail means Mutt won't care about the folder anymore until new
> mail shows up in it. Others seem to want the maildir-ish behavior,
> where messages marked as "new" will always get Mutt's attention, even if
> you left them in the folder. Nice that people can have it whichever way
> they like. :)
Got it. I guess I was expecting the old mbox behavior. I switched to
maildir after the second corrupted mbox file in the past year (I bug
reported the last one, but I don't know if the fix made it in to
mutt).
I wonder if there is a way to approximate the mbox behavior with
maildir?
David
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