Question for all you mutt users

On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 03:49:34PM -0700, Tony Wasson wrote:
> > Okay i switched from sylpheed to mutt because text looks pretty :) I am
> > having some problems though, Its not marking new emails as new, making
> > it really hard to tell when i have new mail :) If anyone knows what
> > setting i need to change to fix this i would appreciate it :) I read
> > through the mutt manual and found the mark_old setting but i set it and
> > its still not working. Even though its supossed to be set by default.
>
> I am not a mutt guru....
> You are correct -- mark_old is set by default. Once you enter mutt your new
> mail is marked as N. If you exit without reading all your new mail, it will
> be marked O. To get around this try unsetting mark_old.
> Are you saying you NEVER see a new mail with 'N' next to it? Are you
> accessing your mail off the local spool or via POP/IMAP?

My new mail never gets marked as new. Or marked as list, or old, or from
me or to me or antyhing. I am using fetchmail to get email from my isp
acccount(pop) and procmail to filter it.

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