On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 07:14:40AM -0400, David T-G wrote: > % mutt takes the "N" away when i just browse down my mail > % in the pager, but the text appears only for 1 second. i > % just wanted to jump over it and read it later, but it >
Similarly, I use mutt with IMAP, and when I switch to a different mail folder from one that has new mail in it, and then switch back, the new mail is no longer marked as new mail, but marked with a status of 'O' instead. This drives me crazy, because I get so much mail in so many mailboxes that the only way I can keep track of which folders have unread messages is to have the folders show up as having new mail. Occasionally (but infrequently), I miss critical e-mail because of this. Is there a way to make mutt never use the 'O' status, instead keeping a status of 'N' on all mail which has not yet been read? Other mailers, such as netscape for example, behave in this way; i.e. there is no differentiation between new mail and old unread mail. Note that flagging the message as New does not help at all, because again, as soon as you change folders to a different folder, mutt will "see" the message with the 'O' status. By way of further explanation: The order in which you define your mailboxes in .muttrc (or sourced files, of course) is the order mutt will prompt for those mailboxes (assuming they have new mail in them). I set up my mailboxes in the order they are most critical. So for example, let's say I have the following mail boxes defined: critical daily logs fun junk [FWIW, these are nothing like my actual mail folders, and I have about 5 times as many.] If I'm reading mail in logs, but I receive e-mail in critical, then when I hit the 'c' key to change mail folders, mutt will ask me if I want to change to critical. I do, and I read the critical mail that showed up there. In the mean time, I get new messages in other mail boxes, so each time I hit the 'c' key to change folders, I end up in one of those mailboxes (since the next highest priority mailbox with new mail will be the one I'm prompted to enter). I won't be taken back into the logs folder until I receive mail in that folder, and in all likelihood I will have forgotten to read some important log message that was left in there since the last time I was in the folder. Now, if one of those messages in the logs folder contained information to which I must react in a time-critical manner... well, I think you see the problem. Can this be changed? Thanks -- --------------------------------------------------- Derek Martin | Unix/Linux geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GnuPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D Retrieve my public key at http://pgp.mit.edu
