Martin --
...and then Martin Man said...
% On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 01:44:13AM -0400, David T-G wrote:
% > ...and then Martin Man said...
% > %
% > % am I the forst who is missing this functionality in mutt ??? can't believe
% > % it..
% >
% > Are you the first? Probably not. Will many mutt folks see it your way?
% > Probably not. Could you write your own feature patch and announce it and
% > work around the "problem"? I dunno; how's your coding? :-)
% not bad, patch is already produced but it doesn't work as expected, because
% Maildir messages don't have Status: field, ... certainly I found at
Yep.
% cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html description of colon appended flags which indicate
% this,
Right. No need to muck with the contents, even at the header level.
%
% >
% > No, I haven't read the specs, either, but I (IMHO) think that 'unread'
% > has nothing to do with 'new', and so it's proper to move old unread
% > messages to /cur and leave new unread messages in /new; if you want 'em
% > to stay, then don't mark 'em old!
% matter of taste but qmail's maildir(5) says
Of course!
% <quote>
% Files in cur are just like files in new. The big difference
% is that files in cur are no longer new mail: they have been
% seen by the user's mail-reading program.
% ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
% </quote>
%
% sure I was wrong here..., sorry
No problem :-) I just *knew* how it was designed but couldn't back it up
with the spec, so I had to pontificate :-)
%
% > If you're coding up some program, as your example said, it would pay to
% > be *very* familiar with the standard and implement it fully and to the
% > letter.
%
% sure I'm going to patch those, unread mail checking should be done by counting
% messages in new/ and adding the numer of messages in cur/ which don't have an
% S flag appended in filename after `:` colon, ...
... and I bet that that's how mutt does it ;-)
%
% curiously lot of programs I've taken a look at are simply counting messages in
% new (gkrellm, gnome mail applet, etc.), I'm going to patch-fix them
They just don't know any better; you'll be able to submit the patches and
the relevant quotes to the various authors and set things a little more
right with the world!
% >
% > HTH & HAND
%
% once again thanx and sorry for blaming the best MUA :-))
We'll forgive you ;-) Glad to be of help!
% martin
%
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