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.)
I'm also thinking about just living with mutt's O/N distinction;
I can filter on ~U rather than ~N and tab works fine, but the only issue
(important to me) is that there is a <toggle-new> command, but not
<toggle-unread>, so hitting "N" on an O-mail will not mark it read,
unlike on N-mails. (There's also <set-flag> and <clear-flag>, but not
<toggle-flag>.) If I were to whip up a patch on this, what do you think
the best approach would be?
Thanks,
--
Petr Baudis
Never! Run before you walk! Fly before you crawl!
Keep moving forward! Because if we fail, I'd rather fail
really hugely. All or nothing! -- Moist Von Lipwig
