Resolving Disconnect Between New and Unread

[David Woodfall]

On Tuesday 28 August 2018 19:06,
Dave Woodfall <dave at dawoodfall.net> put forth the proposition:
> On Friday 24 August 2018 14:38,
> Hunter Jozwiak <hunter.t.joz at gmail.com> put forth the proposition:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have been using Mutt for a while now, and I am impressed so far. There is
> > one rather big problem, in that there is a disconnect between new email and
> > messages that are unread. If I close the client and open it up later and
> > try to read the many emails I haven't gotten to yet, the unread messages
> > that were unread before I close the client are no longer new, which is to
> > be expected, but there is no obvious means of determining whether they are
> > unread or not. Am I misunderstanding something fundemental here? Are new
> > messages actually sononymous with unread? If so, how do I resolve this
> > disconnect?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Hunter
>
> Make sure that your folder_format contains %S

Sorry, I meant index_format

> Seen the muttrc man page for full details, but simply:
>
> Old unread messages will be marked 'O'
> New unread messages will be marked 'N'
>
> However, if you unset mark_old then you will see all unread as 'N'
>
> -Dave

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