On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 05:53:10PM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-17, Udo Hortian wrote: > > Dear mutt users, > > > > I am using mutt since years and love it. Still, sometimes it happens to > > me, that I am beginning to reply to a message, I save it as a draft, > > continue to edit it and send it at some moment. Then sometimes it > > happens that the message I am replying to is not marked as read. I am > > not sure about the exact circumstances when this happens. Still I would > > like to make mutt to mark these messages as ready automatically or to > > mark them as ready manually. Is there a way to mark messages as read > > manually? > > Yes. When in the Index Menu (the view that shows the messages in > the current mailbox) or in the Pager, type 'w' to set a status flag > or 'W' to clear a status flag. Each command shows the list of > available flags. You can find the meaning of the flags in the mutt > manual. In your case, you probably want to clear the 'N' (New) > flag. > > Alternatively, you can toggle the state of the New flag when you're > in the Index Menu by typing 'N'. > > You can get a list of these and other commands by typing '?' in any > menu. > > You can find out more about message status flags in the mutt manual > in the section "The Message Index" and in the table of "Message > status flags". Thank you for this tip! Using w with r afterwards works fine to set the replied flag of a message.
But does anybody have an idea why mutt sometimes forgets to toggle the r-flag (i.e. replied) when I reply to a message storing this message first in drafts, then further edit it and finally send it? One situation in which this happens is if, when I resume to edit the message (the reply), I am in another folder then the message I am replying to. Maybe mutt is not able to notice that this is reply to a message lying in another folder?!
