As Patrick Shanahan said: If the directory containsmail with a date newer than the directory access date, it will show as having *new* mail.
So I think mbox is not changing anything here. On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 08:20:56PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 27.04.12 10:54, Diep Pham Van wrote: > > So, is there an easy way to change that behaviour? > > If there is no other way, then you could consider changing to mbox > format. It retains the 'N' new mail flag indefinitely if > "set mark_old=no", and the post remains unread. > > It seems astounding to me too, that the above setting is not similarly > effectual in maildir format. (A powerful reason for not using maildir, > if there's no fix.) > > But the behaviour seems to be a documented inconsistency with mbox, so > it's not a bug, I'll admit. > > Erik > > -- > The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to > be. - Paul Valery > -- PHẠM Văn Điệp h : http://favadi.com e : i...@favadi.com m : +84 984 339 841 _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML email X & vCards / \
