Re: some oddities with latest CVS HEAD Mutt
On 21-04-2007 10:14:38 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> > > > Sometimes Mutt seems to forget marking messages as read. Most of the
> > > > time it works fine, but every now and then I read a newly received
> > > > message, close Mutt, start it again, and the message I had just read
> > > > still has the 'N' message flag.
> Exactly the same here, some folders more than others (maybe because they
> have more mail arriving there), on both Cyrus and Dovecot IMAP servers.
> Sometimes it is even after closing mutt and starting it again that the
> mail is marked as new again. Just like mutt forgets to mark it as
> read or something. If you crash mutt (or kill it) I think the same
> happens, but then it's kind of logical to me.
I think I found out when this happens:
1. Open a folder with mail marked as new
2. Read the messages, and delete a few
3. Switch to another folder, or to the same folder
3a.Open the folder from 1. again if not already
4. Find all messages marked as new again
If I read all messages -- and nothing else -- and sync the mailbox ($)
then they appear to be marked as read, and keep on being marked as read.
Maybe the delete code interferes with the code to mark the messages as
read? I don't have time/guts to look into the code to check this at the
moment.
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Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level