Re: How to organize mail in folders?

[Gary Johnson <garyjohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2007-07-11, Kai Grossjohann <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> With Gnus, I marked the to-do messages as important ("flagged" them, in
> Mutt-speak, I think).  After it was done, the message was marked as
> read.  Gnus would automatically show me both new messages and important
> messages, hiding the ones marked as read.
> 
> I think Mutt always shows me all messages, so this method cannot be
> used.

Type l (the letter ell) to limit the messages that mutt displays, 
followed by

   ~F|~N

to display only those messages that are either flagged (~F) or new 
(~N).  See the mutt manual, especially the section on "Patterns" for 
more examples.

HTH,
Gary