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. -- BoBB