Re: How to let mutt always mark mbox as new if it contains new
* Wu, Yue <vanopen@xxxxxxxxx> [05-11-09 01:38]:
> On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 12:13:54AM -0400, Chris Jones wrote:
> >
> > I feel mutt's logic is 100% correct.. telling me there are _new_ posts
> > on top of stuff I intially couldn't be bothered to delete and not take
> > into account whatever garbage I didn't have the time & patience to get
> > rid of.
>
> Say, I have many mailboxes that have many new messages, but now I have
> no so much time to see all of them, so I quickly enter mailboxes one
> by one, then just pick the message I'm got most of interested, leave
> the remaining messges for viewing them when I have time. Serveral
> hours later, I have time, I want to see the new messages that I
> haven't seen last time, but now, all mailboxes haven't any flags, so I
> have to go through all of them to see if there are new message in them
> or not.
The individual messages are still "flagged" as net but the mbox
container files is not. You have lost nothing except a notice that
the "container" is not "new".
Opening the mbox "container" file will still show the unread files as
"new" provided you have unset mark_old.
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