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