On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:17:01PM +0200, Rocco Rutte wrote: > Hi, > > * Derek Martin wrote: > > > For what it's worth, the way I would most prefer to process my mail > > would be like this: > > > 1. start mutt > > 2. enter first mailbox (in order listed in .muttrc) which contains > > new mail. > > 3. move to the next mailbox in listed order *in a ring* containing > > new mail (i.e. if you move on from the first mail folder, change > > to the next one in the list with new mail, returning to the first > > mailbox after you've gone through all the others in the list with > > new mail). > > 4. repeat until there are no mailboxes containing new mail > > 5. move to first mailbox containing *unread* (but not new) mail *in a > > ring* > > 6. repeat until no mailboxes contain unread mail > > You "would" as in "you would but cannot"? What's missing? What's missing is two things: - Mutt can not detect Old mail (and prompt to change to that folder) - Mutt does not treat the list of mailboxes as a ring; it always starts from the first one in the list. > Is that a vote for including the patch adding $next_unread_mailbox? Maybe, but I haven't tried it. It sounds like it solves half of the problem... That might be good enough. Though, as someone else (you I think) pointed out, the name is poor. -- 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 due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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