* Will Yardley <[email protected]> [01-19-14 18:13]: > On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 11:17:25PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > > I think if you just do 'unset mark_old' in mutt, it will fix the problem > > > (that is, it should keep status '(N)ew'). > > > > yes, in ~/.muttrc I have: > > unset mark_old # i don't care about whether a message is old > > > > but that keeps "mutt" from marking posts as "old"; squirrelmail still > > marks "old" as does the andriod mail clients on my phone. > > I don't think Dovecot thinks of messages as new or old, but it may set > the 'read' status flag.
the "new/old/cur" is from maildir format. > What's in the 'Status' header of a "new" message vs an "old" one? old: Status :O new: has no status indicator > If you control the Squirrelmail and IMAP servers and don't mind changing > the config globally, there was a patch proposed in '08 which proposed an > imap_no_flag_updates flag to match pop3_no_flag_updates, but unclear if > it was adopted - I'm not seeing it in a recent example config. I see flags implemented for pop(3), but imap flags seem to have no bearing I can find. > Alternately, I guess you could just create a push macro that would tag > messages marked as old and mark them as new when you enter a mailbox in > mutt, but that seems like a pain. may be what eventually happens as I *never* want to see ~O tks, -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net
