Mikko Hänninen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> But it could, in theory, keep track of how many messages were in the
> "new" dir when it left that folder, and if that number is the same
> currently then there is no "really new" mail.
As you mention, that's not a very accurate way to do it, and wouldn't
work when you close Mutt and start it again.
An alternate idea is that, Mutt could, instead of putting
old-but-still-marked-new messages into the "cur" subdir, but with a ":N"
status flag appended. Then, when Mutt re-scans the folder, the messages
will still have the "N" flag, but will not have been found in the "new"
directory, so Mutt won't be fooled into thinking newer mail has arrived.
I can easily imagine that some people would not want this behavior,
though. :)
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