What set of message flags does mutt use to indicate a N[ew] message?

2013-03-19 Thread Chris Green
I'm trying to work out why some of my messages (in mbox) get flagged as 'N' when they're not. So, how does mutt decide that a message is 'N'? There isn't an explicit flag indicating this so it must be some combination of absence of Status: and X-Status: flags. Can anyone tell me what it is

Re: What set of message flags does mutt use to indicate a N[ew] message?

2013-03-19 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 19.03.13 10:29, Chris Green wrote: So, how does mutt decide that a message is 'N'? There isn't an explicit flag indicating this so it must be some combination of absence of Status: and X-Status: flags. Can anyone tell me what it is please. Last time I looked at that, I made these notes:

Re: What set of message flags does mutt use to indicate a N[ew] message?

2013-03-19 Thread David Champion
* On 19 Mar 2013, Erik Christiansen wrote: Status: (mbox format) Mutt uses e.g. Status: RO to flag that a mail is Read and Old Absence of a Status: header causes mutt to flag the mail as New. This is correct, for mbox (aka UNIX v7). For Maildir and MH, IIRC, it's a matter of