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Re: Change unread mark without open the message



On 4/28/08, Marianne Promberger <marianne.promberger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 04/28/08 18:26, hce wrote:
>
>  >
>  > But for old messages which have already marked with "O", I want to
>  > change it back to "N". I tried to use tag as you suggested above to
>  > change all "O" messages to "N". But did not work. Please explain more
>  > details how can I use the tag to change all "O" state to "N" state in
>  > one go.
>
>
> I don't recall what the previously suggested solutions were.
>
>  But this works perfectly fine for me:
>
>  (press in sequence:)
>  T      to tag matching the following pattern
>  ~O     the pattern (all "O" messages should now be tagged)
>  ;      apply the following to all tagged messages (*)
>  N      set "N" flag on tagged messages
>
>  (*) you should be able to omit this step if you've got "set
>  auto_tag=yes" in your .muttrc AFAIK.

Thank you. That works fine.

>  I don't know why your 'set mark_old=no' doesn't work. Do you possibly
>  have a folder-hook somewhere that overrides it?

No, there is no other setting to overrides it.

>From comments from Vladimir, is it a bug in mutt?

I installed mutt binary in Debian box. Seems I have to install a
source package then to make change as Vladimir suggested.

Thank you all.

Kind Regards,

Jim