On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 03:05:14PM +0200, Christian Ebert wrote: > * Chris G on Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 13:45:26 +0100 > > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:29:25PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 01:08:07PM +0100, Chris G wrote: > >>> 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. > >> > >> Oh-oh, that's not good news. I have 710 mbox mail files, with more than > >> 3000 posts in some of them. I suppose I could convert each mbox to a > >> directory of the same name, but then I'd have to muck for days tuning my > >> .muttrc, I fear. :-( > >> > >> Is mbox actively deprecated by the developers, or has it just become a > >> corner case? > > Neither, I'd say. > > > I wasn't saying I was *sure* of this (mbox not getting tested too well > > because it's not used much now) but it's just a feeling I am getting > > as I too had problems moving from 1.4.x to 1.5.x which, at the time, I > > fixed by moving to maildir. > > > > I am now setting up a new system and decided to move back to mbox > > (hence my recent posts on this subject) as the advantages *still* > > outweigh the disadvantages for me. Since my mail delivery goes > > through a filter script of my own I can 'fiddle' things so that new > > mail is recognised by mutt. > > > > Getting back to your problem I have just realised something, when you > > copy a mail message to another mailbox it *is* a new message in that > > mailbox. I have just tried it and I get exactly the same symptoms that > > you report. > > I can't reproduce this, neither with $check_mbox_size set or > unser. Unless, of course, I copy a message that is flagged as > New. > I have just tried it again and I definitely *do* see the bug/problem.
I have a message from amazon.co.uk in my inbox which I have read but not deleted, it has no flags by it. I s[ave] it to ~/Mail/shopping/books and it's deleted from my inbox. I then either s[ave] it or C[opy] it back to my inbox and mutt *immediately* tells me there's new mail in my inbox. However when I go and look the mail from amazon is there but not marked 'N'. -- Chris Green
