On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 09:32:38PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:28:24PM +0200, Michael Ludwig wrote: > > Erik Christiansen schrieb am 24.06.2010 um 19:18 (+1000): > > > Since upgrading to ubuntu 10.04, and therefore Mutt 1.5.20, saving a > > > read mail to another mailbox immediately causes that mailbox to be > > > flagged as containing new mail. Since I'm using the same .muttrc, > > > something has changed between mutt versions, to cause the erroneous > > > behaviour. (Prior mutt version was from 3 years ago, or so.) > > > > > > Does anyone know of a fix for this problem? > > > > You could give the following line a try, which has helped me with a > > similar (if not actually the same) problem: > > > > set check_mbox_size=yes > > Oooof! That was worse. Now twenty old mailboxes, which haven't received > mail in years, also "have New mail", despite being unchanged for years. > And, yes, saving from my mailbox for this list to another caused that > mailbox to be flagged as having "New" mail. > > There is a failure to distinguish between genuine mail arrival, and > simple transfer of old (read) mail between mailboxes. > > If it were a bug, I'd expect others would share the problem, so I > suspect that there's some setting which 1.5.20 needs, but 1.4.? didn't. > > My reading of the problem you solved with check_mbox_size=yes was that > it is more or less the opposite of the one I'm experiencing. > But thanks for the suggestion. Anything is worth a try. > I'm getting the feeling that, maybe, very few people are now using mutt with mbox so that an 'out of the box' installation of mutt on Linux works fine with maildir but if you switch to mbox it all goes very much awry.
-- Chris Green
