Hi again,

Actually no, it does not seem to work, also for non-flat
layouts... the new mails count does not stay at 0 after a
restart of mutt. Don't know what I saw before.

This mail thread from 5 years ago sounds similar:
http://does-not-exist.org/mail-archives/mutt-dev/msg07456.html

Was this issue supposed to be fixed with any version between
1.5.13 and 1.5.21?

Cheers, Linus


On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:58:34AM +0100, Linus Lüssing wrote:
> Hmm, okay, what I noticed is this:
> 
> The mailbox view (hitting 'c', then '?', then <TAB>) kind of
> works if I have a non-flat maildir layout (so having a maildir as
> something like .INBOX.Linus in the file system):
> 
> ~~~
>  2   271 imap://test:[email protected]/Linus 
> ~~~
> 
> After opening that maildir the count then shows 0 instead of 271.
> And even after restarting mutt, this count remains 0 until a new
> email arrives.
> 
> However, it does not work for a flat maildir layout as I used to
> have it (so just having .Linus in the file system). The count
> shows 0 after opening the maildir - but it is back to 271 after
> restarting mutt.
> 
> Using this mailbox view with a non-flat maildir layout will do for
> now for me as a workaround. However I'm still wondering, whether
> the IMAP folder view is supposed to show new emails in a similar
> fashion.
> 
> Cheers, Linus
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 04:35:49PM +0100, Linus Lüssing wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm currently trying to migrate from a local Maildir to an IMAP
> > server. So far I was used to have a maildir marked with an 'N' in
> > mutt if there was a new email in there, like:
> > ~~~
> > 21   N drwxr-x---  5 fetchmai mail         4.0K Jan 22 12:11 .Linus/
> > ~~~
> > 
> > Which is pretty handy, because I don't want to have to access
> > every single maildir to check whether I have new emails there.
> > 
> > However, I do not seem to have this anymore when trying to access my
> > mails via IMAP, it for instance just says:
> > 
> > ~~~
> > 16     IMAP                                  Linus
> > ~~~
> > 
> > Am I doing something wrong in Dovecot or in Mutt? Or is this
> > somehow not supported with IMAP?
> > 
> > 
> > My muttrc for IMAP looks like this (I'm trying to start minimal):
> > ~~~
> > set folder="imap://test:[email protected]/"
> > set spoolfile="imap://test:[email protected]/"
> > set imap_check_subscribed=yes
> > ~~~
> > 
> > The muttrc for the local Maildirs looked like this:
> > ~~~
> > ignore *
> > unignore From: To: Cc: Subject: Date: #Only these are shown in the
> > header
> > set from="[email protected]"
> > set realname="Linus Lüssing"
> > set use_from=yes
> > set envelope_from="yes"
> > set editor = "/usr/bin/vim +\"set nomodeline\" +\"set tw=66\""
> > set sendmail="/usr/bin/msmtp"
> > set mbox_type=Maildir
> > set folder="/var/mail/Maildir"
> > set mask="!^\\.[^.]"
> > set mbox="/var/mail/Maildir"
> > set record="+.Sent"
> > set postponed="+.Drafts"
> > mailboxes ! + `\
> > for file in /var/mail/Maildir/.*; do \
> >   box=$(basename "$file"); \
> >   if [ ! "$box" = '.' -a ! "$box" = '..' -a ! "$box" =
> > '.customflags' \
> >       -a ! "$box" = '.subscriptions' ]; then \
> >     echo -n "\"+$box\" "; \
> >   fi; \
> > done`
> > mailboxes "/var/mail/linus"
> > ~~~
> > 
> > And I'm using Mutt 1.5.20 (2009-06-14) and dovecot-imapd 1:1.2.15-7
> > on a Debian Squeeze.
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers, Linus
> > 
> > 
> > PS: Thanks for sharing Mutt and its code with the world, 
> > it's been a very reliable email client for me for ages.
> > 
> 

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