Resolving Disconnect Between New and Unread

[David Woodfall]

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
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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