Re: where stores mutt the status of messages, i.e. "r", "N", etc. ?

2019-05-19 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-05-19 18:30, Ulrich Lauther wrote: > Probably because my mailbox grew to large, this mechanism failed: > suddenly I saw very old messages first. To repair this I edited the > mailbox (using vi) and deleted old messages. Now it works again, but > the status flags are funny: all messages a

where stores mutt the status of messages, i.e. "r", "N", etc. ?

2019-05-19 Thread Ulrich Lauther
In the mailbox /var/mail/ new messages are appended, but mutt displays the newest messages first. Makes sense. Probably because my mailbox grew to large, this mechanism failed: suddenly I saw very old messages first. To repair this I edited the mailbox (using vi) and deleted old messages. Now it