* 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
