On Tue, Feb 20, 2001, Olivier Thereaux wrote:
> after reading hugo's mail[1], I decided to switch to maildirs (for various
> reasons, including fun, ease to synchronize, testing, a.s.o).
Excellent. I will have to do this at some point too, as soon as I have
figured out how to make it work with IMAP.
[..]
> Indeed, it can access maildir folders. Still, maildir support is not as
> good as mailbox support. The following are not really bugs, but can be
> annoying.
>
[..]
> * 2 : default unread maildir
> In a mailbox configuration, once you have read some mail in one box, it
> is considered as read, and won't show up as having new mails, even if
> you have left some unread mail in it. It won't show up as the default
> unread mailbox, either.
>
> In a maildir configuration, you have to read *all your new mail*
> in a maildir, and if not it will always show up as the default
> "next-to-be-read".
I have seen something like that. I have reported a bug[0] about
trashed emails, but I wanted to report this behavior too. You should
probably send another message there with your comments. Well, my
problem is that I could not leave a folder until I had read *all* the
emails in it because it would otherwise always show up in the change
folder prompt as a folder with new mail. I should try with a newer
version of Mutt.
Note that I discussed on mutt-dev new mail detection in the past. The
problem is that, even in mbox format, it doesn't work that well: Mutt
uses the folder's timestamp (which is a cheap test) to detect new
mail. The problem is that it doesn't always work, especially over NFS.
This is why I always compile Mutt with the buffy size option which
reads the folder to see if there is new mail.
> Cool behaviour would probably be somewhere between those two. Being able
> to put aside some mails you want to read later, and being reminded it
> once the rest has been read.
I think that this can be achieved with the mark_old option, although I
am not sure about it. I tried to use it, but I wasn't that happy,
although I can't remember why.
0.
http://bugs.guug.de/db/41/412.html
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