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Re: mailboxes, color, and new items



On Fri Oct 03  12:07PM, Michael W. Oliver wrote:
> I just started using Mutt and am still trying to get the hang of it.  One
> item that I can't find any information on yet is whether or not it is
> possible to highlight mailboxes that have unread and/or new messages.  For
> example, when I switch to the folders view (c?) and then toggle-mailboxes, I
> see the entire list of mailboxes that I have configured in muttrc.
> 
> Now for my question.  Is there a way to highlight/dim/mark in some way the
> mailboxes that have zero new messages in them?  The point here being that I
> want to see at-a-glance which mailboxes need attention.
> 
set folder_format="%N <anything you want>"
%N tags mailboxes that contain new messages with 'N'

http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-6.html#ss6.3

greets, 
andreas