Re: Mutt Unread Mail
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 10:57:34PM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote:
| also sprach dman (on Fri, 14 Sep 2001 11:11:56AM -0400):
| > I have the same verison as you. If I leave messages as either New or
| > Old in a mailbox, pressing 'c' will not jump to that mailbox. If,
| > however, new mail arrives in that mailbox while I'm looking at another
| > mailbox then it will jump to it. The flag on a mailbox (contains new
| > mail or not) is based on the mailbox's timestamp. If you look at the
| > mailbox after it was modified then it does not have new mail, but if
| > it was modified after it was looked at then it has new mail. What
| > sort of mailbox do you use? I am using mbox, but perhaps a directory
| > based format (such as maildir) has different semantics?
|
| yup, i have Maildir. that's most likely why. precisely for the reason
| you indicated.
I bet the "folder" is the directory, and the directory's mtime is
after it's atime when you mark messages as 'old'.
| thanks for clearing this up!
No problem. For once my speculation was correct :-).
-D
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