Package: mutt
Version: 1.5.18-6+b1
Severity: wishlist

When I postpone an email, it is flagged as new. I find this annoying
because in my mind "new" emails are ones that I've not read, and this
isn't true about postponed emails. Furthermore this is distracting
because my status_format configuration variable includes %b (number of
mailboxes with new mail) and postponed emails marked new are included
in this count. Thus, after postponing an email, %b increases by one,
effectively notifying me I've just postponed an email; this is telling
me something I already know.

Can mutt be configured so new emails are not marked as new?

-- Package-specific info:
Mutt 1.5.18 (2008-05-17)
Copyright (C) 1996-2008 Michael R. Elkins and others.
Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.

System: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (x86_64)
ncurses: ncurses 5.7.20090523 (compiled with 5.7)
libidn: 1.14 (compiled with 1.14)
hcache backend: GDBM version 1.8.3. 10/15/2002 (built Aug 27 2008 08:41:43)
Compile options:
-DOMAIN
+DEBUG
-HOMESPOOL  +USE_SETGID  +USE_DOTLOCK  +DL_STANDALONE  
+USE_FCNTL  -USE_FLOCK   
+USE_POP  +USE_IMAP  +USE_SMTP  +USE_GSS  -USE_SSL_OPENSSL  +USE_SSL_GNUTLS  
+USE_SASL  +HAVE_GETADDRINFO  
+HAVE_REGCOMP  -USE_GNU_REGEX  
+HAVE_COLOR  +HAVE_START_COLOR  +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD  +HAVE_BKGDSET  
+HAVE_CURS_SET  +HAVE_META  +HAVE_RESIZETERM  
+CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_PGP  +CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_SMIME  -CRYPT_BACKEND_GPGME  
-EXACT_ADDRESS  -SUN_ATTACHMENT  
+ENABLE_NLS  -LOCALES_HACK  +COMPRESSED  +HAVE_WC_FUNCS  +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET 
 +HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR  
+HAVE_ICONV  -ICONV_NONTRANS  +HAVE_LIBIDN  +HAVE_GETSID  +USE_HCACHE  
-ISPELL
SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
MAILPATH="/var/mail"
PKGDATADIR="/usr/share/mutt"
SYSCONFDIR="/etc"
EXECSHELL="/bin/sh"
MIXMASTER="mixmaster"
To contact the developers, please mail to <mutt-...@mutt.org>.
To report a bug, please visit http://bugs.mutt.org/.

patch-1.5.13.cd.ifdef.2
patch-1.5.13.cd.purge_message.3.4
patch-1.5.13.nt+ab.xtitles.4
patch-1.5.4.vk.pgp_verbose_mime
patch-1.5.6.dw.maildir-mtime.1
patch-1.5.8.hr.sensible_browser_position.3

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mutt depends on:
ii  libc6           2.9-12                   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcomerr2      1.41.3-1                 common error description library
ii  libgdbm3        1.8.3-4                  GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii  libgnutls26     2.6.6-1                  the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgssapi-krb5- 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-13      MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  libidn11        1.14-3                   GNU Libidn library, implementation
ii  libk5crypto3    1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-13      MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - C
ii  libkrb5-3       1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-13      MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libncursesw5    5.7+20090523-1           shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsasl2-2      2.1.22.dfsg1-23+squeeze1 Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra

Versions of packages mutt recommends:
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.69-11    lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
ii  locales                       2.9-12     GNU C Library: National Language (
ii  mime-support                  3.46-1     MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap

Versions of packages mutt suggests:
ii  aspell                      0.60.6-1     GNU Aspell spell-checker
ii  ca-certificates             20081127     Common CA certificates
ii  gnupg                       1.4.9-4      GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii  ispell                      3.1.20.0-4.5 International Ispell (an interacti
ii  mixmaster                   3.0.0-2      Anonymous remailer client and serv
ii  openssl                     0.9.8k-3     Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary a
pn  urlview                     <none>       (no description available)

Versions of packages mutt is related to:
ii  mutt                         1.5.18-6+b1 text-based mailreader supporting M
pn  mutt-dbg                     <none>      (no description available)
pn  mutt-patched                 <none>      (no description available)

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