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Re: Gmail IMAP old vs new



 
> > But when I receive new mail the status flag is O (for old) and not N 
> > (for New).
> 
> For a long time, mutt's support for O and N flags was dependent upon 
> IMAP support for the \Recent flag, which Gmail doesn't support at all 
> (as you can see here: 
> http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78761&topic=12762&disablechatbrowsercheck=1).
>  
> It's been rewritten recently (i.e. back around January 2006 or so) to 
> use \Seen instead, so you may want to upgrade your mutt from 1.5.11 
> (which relies on \Recent, which gmail doesn't support) to mutt 1.5.12 
> or newer (which relies on \Seen).
> 

Darn!  I was hoping for a quick .muttrc setting.  It is not that big of
a deal between the O and N.  I guess I can live with it until I just
can't stand it anymore.   Thanks for the quick reply.

Chris

 
> ~Kyle
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