Re: marking a message as "read"

[Kevin J. McCarthy]

On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 07:50:36AM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:

If you have both "new" and "old" messages in the mailbox and want to clear both of them (marking them as read), I would suggest using something like

 <tag-pattern>~U<enter><tag-prefix-cond><clear-flag>O

Clearing "old" will actually set both "new" and "old" messages to "read".

  <tag-pattern>~U<enter><tag-prefix-cond><clear-flag>N
would work just as well.



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Just to follow-up to this and at the same time address Kurt's question, clearing "new" effectively does so too. So Internally, Mutt uses two different bits, "old", and "read" to represent the three states. "<clear-flag>O" sets the read bit and unsets the old bit, while "<clear-flag>N" only sets the read bit. However, Mutt patterns and display flags ignore the old bit if read is set.

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