On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 11:38:33PM -0700, John Iverson wrote: > * On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Will Yardley wrote: > > > > 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?
well that depends on your point of view, I once had a very hot discussion
about the same problem and the final resolution (after I read the Maildir
specs from qmail distro) was that: mutt is again correct sice specs says:
1) MDA delivers mail to new/ subdir
2) MUA checks whether there is something in new/, (mutt displays N
if there is something) and *is* urged to move everything from new/ to cur/
ASAP
so once mutt opens Maildir and closes it, all (even unread) mails are moved to
cur/, with mailboxes, once you open-close a mailbox, timestamp of the mailbox
is updated and you loose the info about new mail.
to find unread mail in Maildir you have to scan cur/ and look for all unread
messages (I think thy have something like O near to the end of their
filename), with mailbox you have to grep for '^Status: O' to see which
messages are unread, and this could be quite CPU intensive, IMHO that's why it's
still left out of mutt, would be nice to be able to switch it on/off on demand
though
ok, I've left mutt out to do its job and for checking the folders I use
gkrellm which does efectively what I described: it scans Maildirs/mailboxes
message after message periodically and can report, new a/o unread messages
nicely
> John
martin
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