Re: Messages moved from /new to /cur

[Jon Riddle <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OfflineIMAP isn't directly accessing the maildir - it goes through Binc
on both sides.  This moving of messages happens even when Mutt is not
running.  If I deliver a message to my local Maildir, it lives in /new
with no flags.  If I then run offlineimap (with or without Mutt
running), that new message gets moved to /cur with an empty info string
(":2,") appended.

I consider it an annoyance of Mutt that it doesn't treat Old unread
messages like New unread messages, but that's the road the Mutt
developers decided to follow, and there may even be an option to work
around my issue, but I haven't found it.  My underlying concern here is
why OfflineIMAP seems to be moving messages from /new to /cur.

Jon

> On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 10:22:32AM -0600, Jon Riddle wrote:
> > Interestingly enough, Mutt does keep the N flag with that setting, but
> > it doesn't auto-fill the mailbox name when I change folders.  Odd?
> > 
> > I still don't see why OfflineIMAP should move messages from /new to
> > /cur, though.  Can this at least be made a ./configure or .offlineimaprc
> > option?  Is this even offlineIMAP that is doing this?  Honestly, I'm
> > assuming this only because of the changelog entry pointed out in a
> > previous thread, but for all I know, Binc could be moving the message.
> > Thoughts?
> 
> I'm confused here...
> 
> Let me try to see if I understand this correctly.
> 
> You have a Maildir.  Three programs access that Maildir directly: Binc,
> OfflineIMAP, and mutt.  Something -- and you believe OfflineIMAP -- is
> taking unread messages and moving them to cur, even though they don't
> have the S flag.
> 
> That doesn't sound like OfflineIMAP.  OfflineIMAP does not gratuitously
> move messages around; it will only move things from new to cur if the
> flags indicate that the message is no longer unread.
> 
> That said, it is standard behavior for mail readers to do so.  I
> consider it a bug in mutt that it considers a message to be unread only
> if it's in new.
> 
> -- John
> 
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