[Techtalk] mutt and threads

[Lina Mårtensson]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 03:31:52PM +1100, Mary wrote:
> 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.

I see that as a feature. :)

> 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.

That hasn't happened to me, but instead mail that is received to my
inbox and read, and then moved to another folder, sometimes gets marked
as O when I use IMAP.

	/Lina