On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 01:32:17PM -0700, Lonnie Sutton wrote: > Hi Pigeon, > > First, let me add my thanks for your putting up your .mailfilterrc to > give me a great start on that file and dealing with the blizzard of spam > that comes from posting to the d-u list these days.
<modest shrug> Thanks! > I installed mailfilter 0.5.1 in my mail system by using the "preconnect" > addition to my .fetchmailrc (fetchmail is version 6.2.4) and using exim > version 3.36 as my MTA, and mutt 1.5.4i in a Debian testing system last > evening before shutting down for the evening, and making sure that > mailfilter seemed to be operating OK and as expected, which it seemed to > do. I am on DSL so always on. ...so by 'shutting down', you mean you closed all open applications, but didn't actually issue the 'shutdown' command and power the machine off? > However, when I opened mutt this morning, all of my new messages were > shown in the index as having been read, i.e, no "N" status. Prior to my > installing and activating mailfilter, my index would show new messages > with the above status and any new messages still unread when I close > mutt would be changed to "O" when I reopened mutt next time. Now I have > lost this useful functionality in Mutt. This is done by mutt inserting a Status: header in the mailbox (there is no separate file). Messages with no Status: header are shown as 'N'. When you read a message mutt inserts 'Status: RO' and the message is shown as read. If you quit without reading the message, 'Status: O' is inserted and you get 'O' when you open mutt again. AFAIK the only thing that will alter that Status: header is mutt itself... and the only time I've found all my new messages shown as read is after leaving the room with my keyboard accessible to my pigeon. > Would you be kind enough to point me to the right location for > reading how to restore the functionality I am missing. I have looked > through the Mutt documentation and suspect it has do do with formatting > the index, but didn't see any thing there that told me how to do that. I don't think there's much you can do. You could edit the mbox by hand and delete the Status: header from the new messages, as determined by looking at the date; or you could write a script to do it. I'm not aware of any automatic method of restoring it. > Mailfilter is working great, thanks very much, as near as I can tell. > > Thanks in advance for your helping an old fart, and all the best. I'm sorry that I can't be of more help, but the thing is I don't have the faintest idea what caused your problem. I'm CCing this to debian-user in case anyone there has any ideas. Cheers, -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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