Question for all you mutt users

[Tony Wasson]

> 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.

Have you tried  'reset all' in an otherwise blank .muttrc file? This
occasionally verifies to me that I didn't set anything weird. I am out of
ideas otherwise, hopefully some mutt guru will show us the light....

Tony