Re: atime/mtime
On Tuesday, 23 June 2009 at 23:17, 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? Is that a vote
> for including the patch adding $next_unread_mailbox?
For many months mutt has had a 'next-unread-mailbox' command, which
treats the buffy list as a ring. I think the only thing missing is a
flag that allows the user to choose whether or not to skip mailboxes
with old mail.