[Techtalk] mutt and threads

[Mary]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005, Matthew Miller wrote:
> Personally, I love the "O" mark. It helps me distinguish between actually
> new mail and mail I got a month ago and meant to answer but didn't. :)

It has a couple of problems: first the mutt check of $mailboxes for new
mail won't pick up mail marked O. Second, many IMAP servers mark all
mail on the server O as soon as a client touches the mailbox. This is a
pain if you ever access the mailbox on the server directly.

-Mary