Re: Any reason to mark read messages as old?
On Monday, 19 December 2005 at 13:20, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> 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.
The patch I suggested would still move all messages to cur: if they
are read they get moved there automatically, and if they are unread
they will be marked old (I even tried it). I guess I'll commit it for
now...