* Petr Baudis <[email protected]> [09-24-16 21:03]: > Hi! > > mutt is showing messages in maildir that are unread but in cur/ as > "old", is there a way to make the messages (in general all unread > messages) always show as "new" instead? I'm not interested in the > distinction at all... > > I've just set up Dovecot imap on a maildir i'm also reading with mutt > locally, and Dovecot follows the maildir spec which says that MUA should > move mails from new/ to cur/ right away, and that is making mutt show > the messages as old instead of new. Note that mutt's $mark_old (which > I have disabled) doesn't affect this as it says only what mutt does when > *saving* messages. > > (N.B. the same thing is actually also happenning with mailboxes accessed > by Dovecot, but I haven't looked into exactly why in that case.) > > I'm open to suggestion about imap servers that don't do this and play > well with local mutt MUA too! (Even though I can't say Dovecot is doing > anything *wrong* per se.)
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