On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 05:30:31PM +0200, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote: > > > > But there is good reason to distinguish between "new" mail, and > > > > "unread" mail. You may not have read a particular message, but from > > > > seeing its sender and subject, you may already know that it's a > > > > message you don't need to see (or even don't have time to look at) > > > > right now. But as you say, you haven't read it yet, so you want your > > > > > > I often open folders without looking at anything of some of the new > > > mails. I think these mails should stay new. > > > > How does marking such mail as "unread" not solve your problem? > > My problem is already solved fine by mutt. The mails stay new, as they > should. Fine, let me rephrase the question. If the change I proposed were made to mutt, how does that hurt you? The fact is, mutt does NOT already solve the problem fine. It only works for you because you use maildir. It works differently for other formats. With mbox, for example, mutt keeps the mail marked as new, but does not consider these folders to have new mail in them until additional new mail arrives in them. This behavior is BROKEN. For those who really DO want new mail to stay new mail, instead of being marked as unread mail, that could be a configuration option. It already is... no reason it can't be kept. The only difference should be that mutt should treat folders with new mail consistenly across folder formats, which it currently does not do. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thank the spammers.
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