Re: Any reason to mark read messages as old?
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 05:49:23PM -0800, Brendan Cully wrote:
> While fixing the Old message flag for IMAP (one of several changes
> I'll commit tomorrow), I noticed that mutt marks all messages as old
> if mark_old is set, not just unread ones. Is there a reason for this?
> If not I'd like to turn it off to avoid spamming my mailboxes with the
> flag.
>
old means non-recent/-new. the current behaviour is consistent with imap
(which unsets new automatically). with maildir non-recent means cur/
instead of new/ - i've seen funny effects with seen messages in new/ ...
ok, it was buggy software, but still.
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