On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 12:48:25PM -0500, David DeSimone wrote:
> Robert Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Also, I've noticed that if I do limit, delete, sync, multiple times in
> > random order, sometimes all New mails in my inbox are marked read! I
> > have not been able to reproduce it, but it's possibly a bug. I'm
> > using IMAP.
>
> The new/old status is controlled by the IMAP server. If you use a limit
> pattern such as "~b <string>", Mutt will need to fetch all the messages
> in order to search the message bodies. When this is done, the IMAP
> server sees all those FETCH commands, and assumes that you have read all
> the messages; it marks them read! When you next re-sync the folder, all
> your New flags will disappear.
Is there any explanation as to why it might happen when someone isn't
using IMAP? I've been able to do the same thing to a local spool file.
I've recently upgraded to 0.95.4i, and I don't think I've seen the problem
since. I'll try and duplicate it, but perhaps it was fixed.
David
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