Resolving Disconnect Between New and Unread

[Patrick Shanahan]

* Hunter Jozwiak <hunter.t.joz at gmail.com> [08-24-18 14:41]:
> 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?

man muttrc
unset mark_old perhaps

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