On Friday, 09 December 2011 at 08:59, Victor Sudakov wrote: > Victor Sudakov wrote: > > > > After upgrading to mutt-devel-1.5.21_3 from ports (FreebSD 7.4-STABLE) > > the mark_old=yes option ceased working in IMAP folders (it still works > > in local mboxes). > > > > Now, when I exit an IMAP mailbox without reading some new messages, > > and then open it again, those messages again show as "N" instead of > > "O". Even if I explicitly mark some messages as "O", they become "N" > > on the second visit to the mailbox. > > Have I asked something weird or does nobody use IMAP? > > I clearly remember IMAP messages becoming "O" in mutt-1.4.2.3_4, and I > miss the feature very much. I wonder, where mutt could have stored the > "O" flag on the IMAP server and why it doesn't do it now.
It is supposed to work (it works for me against a Cyrus IMAP server). Perhaps your server doesn't allow custom flags to be stored? We'd have to inspect the debug transcript to know for sure. I'd suggest you file a bug.
