Hi, I recently switched from evolution to mutt, and I wonder how to deal with new mail. In evolution, all received mail was sorted in diffenrent folders, but I had a special folder where all new unread mails would show up. I guess it was called a "search"-folder which only contained links to the mails in their "real" folders or something. If I marked mails as read they would not show up in that search folder any more, but in their "real" folders. This was a very convinient way to deal with new mail...
I set up mutt with fetchmail and procmail, with procmail sorting mails in mboxes. So when I start mutt, I get the index view of the spoolfile with new mails in it. But what if I got new mail that was sorted by procmail into other mboxes? How do I know there is new mail without checking each mbox? I've defined the mboxes according to the mutt manual, set folder="$HOME/mail" mailboxes =mboxname ...but the status bar would only display the number of new mails in the mbox I'm currently in and not how many of my mboxes have new mail. I also don't get this sentence from the manual (3.11 Defining mailboes which receive mails): "When changing folders, pressing space will cycle through folders with new mail." What does that mean? Is it when I press c to change folders and than I can press space? Or is it when I press y? I didn't see no folder-cycling either way... Another way for dealing with new mail i thought of was this one: 1: Every mail goes to the spoolfile, procmail just filters spam 2: Mails in the spoolfile are displayed sorted and coloured according to their scoring, mail from friends first for example 3: Set up some kind of folder-hook-magic to save the mails from the spoolfile to their folders when exiting mutt. Would this be possible? I fear I've read something about "mutt can only save to one mbox on exit"... Regards, Benjamin
