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List:       mutt-users
Subject:    Re: mutt/dovecot/squirrelmail mark old
From:       Patrick Shanahan <ptilopteri () gmail ! com>
Date:       2014-01-20 0:07:06
Message-ID: 20140120000706.GT7409 () wahoo ! no-ip ! org
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* Will Yardley <mutt-users@veggiechinese.net> [01-19-14 18:13]:
> On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 11:17:25PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> > > I think if you just do 'unset mark_old' in mutt, it will fix the problem
> > > (that is, it should keep status '(N)ew').
> > 
> > yes, in ~/.muttrc I have:
> >   unset mark_old       # i don't care about whether a message is old
> > 
> > but that keeps "mutt" from marking posts as "old"; squirrelmail still
> > marks "old" as does the andriod mail clients on my phone.
> 
> I don't think Dovecot thinks of messages as new or old, but it may set
> the 'read' status flag.

the "new/old/cur" is from maildir format.
 
> What's in the 'Status' header of a "new" message vs an "old" one?

old:	Status :O
new:    has no status indicator
 
> If you control the Squirrelmail and IMAP servers and don't mind changing
> the config globally, there was a patch proposed in '08 which proposed an
> imap_no_flag_updates flag to match pop3_no_flag_updates, but unclear if
> it was adopted - I'm not seeing it in a recent example config.

I see flags implemented for pop(3), but imap flags seem to have no bearing
I can find.
 
> Alternately, I guess you could just create a push macro that would tag
> messages marked as old and mark them as new when you enter a mailbox in
> mutt, but that seems like a pain.

may be what eventually happens as I *never* want to see ~O

tks,
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