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Re: Old e-mails behaving as new



On Sun, Feb 04 2007 16:51, Stuart McKim wrote:
> I just changed my version of mutt from 1.5.9i to 1.5.13 and am
> experiencing some behavior that seems very weird to me.
> 
> When I start mutt and log into my imap server, all the mailboxes defined
> in my .muttrc are shown as having new mail. When I open those mailboxes,
> the only specially marked e-mails are ones marked as old, with an "O".
> There are no e-mails marked with an "N".
> 
> In the old version of mutt, these mailboxes would not have been detected
> as having new mail. This made more sense, since I already opened that
> mailbox since those e-mails had been received.
> 
> My .muttrc did not change. The imap server is using Maildirs; I don't
> know if that makes any difference, it always has used Maildirs.
> 
> Did something change that would have caused this? The behavior is quite
> annoying since I have a lot of mailboxes. Is there an option to make
> mutt behave differently?
> 
> Any advice would be appreciated.

Mutt is querying your IMAP server asking which folders have unseen
messages, and the server responds as it should. Imaps upports the
"recent" response, that notifies the client about the number of recent
messages.[1]

Jørgen H. Fjeld recently submitted a patch[2] that adds the "imap_recent"
option, which applies cleanly to the 1.5.13 release and CVS.

Cheers.

1. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501#section-2.3.2
2. http://bugs.mutt.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view&pr=2772

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redondos

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