On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 07:37:45PM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Wu, Yue <vano...@gmail.com> [05-08-09 18:26]: > > > > >From the manpage of muttrc, it says mark_old is for: > > > > > Controls whether or not mutt marks new unread messages as old if you > > > exit a mailbox without reading them. > > > > So it's for message, not for mbox. My issue is that when I enter into > > mbox then change to others, then the mbox's new mark will gone, no > > matter if the mbox contains new messages or not. > > Mutt inserts a "flag" into each message header according to your > configuration. If you examine the header of a message flagged as > "old" you will see "Status: O" near the last header line.
Please see my reply carefully... I have had set the mark_old to no, and I repeatly said the *mbox*'s new mark is gone, no old mark or other marks at all. > > Since you had previously used mutt configured to "mark_old" and mutt > did as it was told, you must those messages which have already been > flagged. To do this: > > T~O;N > > Enter the above characters and the entire visible listing will have > the "old" flagged messages changed to "new". I have set the mark_old to no, so I have disabled it, and it works fine for *message* but not for *mbox*. > > > Maybe I didn't describe myself clearly, so make you misunderstand? > > Sorry for my bad English. > > Yes, you have made your problem clear. But once the "new" messages > have been marked/flagged as "old" changing the configuration will not > automagically change them back to "new". The key sequence I displayed > above "T~O;N" will change the entire current mbox file. > > And since you have set "mark_old" to "off" or "unset", you will not > see this happen any more. -- Hi, Wu, Yue
