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