* On 2002.06.18, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, * "Aaron Schrab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > By default mutt automatically changes the N flag to O upon leaving a > folder. You can disable this with 'set mark_old=no'. > > This will also cause mutt to treat any messages that are flagged as O on > disk as if they are actually marked as new (including possibly writing > them back as new). This can be fixed (since IMO it's broken) with a > patch I maintain: > > http://www.schrab.com/aaron/mutt/patch-1.3.28.ats.mark_old.1
This is a good patch, and I highly recommend it. (I'd love to see it absorbed into the core code. It's small, and it preserves the original behavior.) I consider it essential. -- -D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] NSIT University of Chicago
