On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 05:37:33PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove (dis)graced my inbox
with:
> what i'm seeing is this:
>
> -rwx------ stephen seh Oct 27 17:27 4096 ../
> -rw-r--r-- stephen seh Oct 27 16:14 50255 Bulk
> drwxr-sr-x stephen seh Oct 23 18:02 4096 History/
> -rw-r--r-- stephen seh Oct 26 10:27 666761 Lori
> -rw------- stephen seh Oct 02 17:34 68360 apache
>
> when Lori and apache have new mail. what i'd like to see is this:
>
> -rwx------ stephen seh Oct 27 17:27 4096 ../
> -rw-r--r-- stephen seh Oct 27 16:14 50255 Bulk
> drwxr-sr-x stephen seh Oct 23 18:02 4096 History/
> -rw-r--r-- stephen seh Oct 26 10:27 666761 N Lori
> -rw------- stephen seh Oct 02 17:34 68360 N apache
>
> when the mail folders Lori and apache have new mail.
Well, I've never actually figured out how to make mutt do that the way I
want it to (I can make mutt tell me when there's _new_ mail, but all new
mail turns old when you leave that folder. I can't make mutt tell me
when there's _unread_ mail, like you want to).
But, like I said, a good solution is to set up mbox-hooks (read the
manual for more information on them). With mbox hooks, you can move all
your read mail into a designated folder. This means that if you saw
this:
-rwx------ stephen seh Oct 27 17:27 4096 ../
-rw-r--r-- stephen seh Oct 27 16:14 0 Bulk
-rw-r--r-- stephen seh Oct 27 16:14 123456 Bulk-old
drwxr-sr-x stephen seh Oct 23 18:02 4096 History/
-rw-r--r-- stephen seh Oct 26 10:27 3451 Lori
-rw-r--r-- stephen seh Oct 26 10:27 666761 Lori-old
-rw------- stephen seh Oct 02 17:34 0 apache
-rw------- stephen seh Oct 02 17:34 68360 apache-old
You would know there is no new mail in Bulk or apache (because their
sizes are 0), and you would know there is new mail in Lori (because it's
size is not 0).
HTH & HAND :)
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Rob 'Feztaa' Park
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