* On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Will Yardley wrote:

> John Iverson wrote:
> 
> >> With Maildir, the folder will continue to show up as having
> >> new messages (I don't know if that, in and of itself is a
> >> good reason to switch to Maildir).
> 
> > I'm using Maildir folders, and I'm having the same problem.
> > And it doesn't matter if the folder gets more new messages.
> > The "N" marker never shows up for the mailbox you just came
> > (to the mailbox browser) from.
> 
> right, but once you enter another mailbox and go back to the
> browser, it shows up as having new mail again.

Yes, and then you have the same problem with the other mailbox.
:-)

> with mbox, it doesn't show up as having new mail again until
> new new mail arrives.

So I guess we should consider this a design limitation?

Since things seem okay when I first start up with "mutt -y",
maybe it shouldn't be too hard to create a command that closes
a mailbox without having to switch to another one.

-- 
John

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