Hi Rocco,
> > there. New mail in other directories is marked as new when I viist it,
> > but the directory is not marked, and none of the switch to dirs with
> > new mail commands work.
>
> Then I suspect it doesn't get flagged with 'N' in the folder browser, too?
Sorry, yes that's what I meant. My bad.
>
> To detect new mail in maildirs, mutt looks at the new/
> subdirectory. There, it tries to find a file that does not have ":2," in
> its name, or if it has, doesn't contain "T" after the comma. (the ":2,"
> thing means that a mail's flags follow, the "T" flag means trashed,
> i.e. deleted -- mutt looks for one non-trashed message in new/).
>
> It would be helpful if you could use ls(1) to see what the filenames
> look like.
>
Picking one mail folder at random, in the new directory they are all of
the format:
1234567890.1234_0.HOSTNAME
In the cur directory they are roughly of the format:
1234567890.1234_0.HOSTNAME:2,S (or RS)
1234567890.1234_123.HOSTNAME:2,S
etc.
cheers,
Adam
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