Hi, I'm using Mutt 1.5.15 on Xubuntu Gutsy, on two machines with what I thought was the same setup (same ~/.muttrc et al files).
On the laptop, when I send mail to myself on localhost using the exim MTA that comes with Ubuntu, it goes nicely into /var/mail/username, which is an mbox mailbox. I have in ~/.muttrc mailboxes /var/mail/username so it shows up in in the mailbox browser. I can read these mails with mutt just fine. So far, so good. I have in ~/.muttrc macro index q '<change-folder>?<toggle-mailboxes>' so when I hit "q" from the /var/mail/username index I get back to the mailbox browser, and that correctly does not show any "N" next to /var/mail/username mailbox. However, when I either go into a different mailbox and then back to the mailbox browser view, or if I exit mutt completely and then restart it, mutt shows an N for new mail next to the /var/mail/username mailbox in the browser. When I open that mailbox in mutt, the message is correctly neither flagged as "N" nor as "O". If I delete all the messages in /var/mail/username, the "N" goes away. This does not happen for any other mailbox -- mutt correctly does not show an "N" if all messages have been seen. Also oddly, this does not happen on the desktop, so it may well be something to do with something outside of mutt but I have no idea where to look, since I don't know how and where mutt stores info about seen/unseen mail in the mailboxes. Any pointers would be great. m.
