On 2015-08-25 17:35 +0200, Joe wrote:

> %N should mean: "show N flag for mailboxes containing "New" mail messages"

> all mailboxes are in mbox format (at now) not in maildir format.
> I have many mailboxes, filled using fetchmail/procmail.

With mbox, AFAIK mutt detects newness simply by comparing mtime with
atime of the file.  If they're the same, it is new.

Are you possibly mounting the filesystem with the noatime option?

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