Re: Configuration for mark/unmark unread new messages as old

[José Romildo Malaquias <j romildo gmail com>]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 07:36:52AM -0400, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> Hello, Romildo!
>
> On 04/14/2015 05:30:03 AM Tue, José Romildo Malaquias wrote:
> > I would like to be able to choose if unread new messages should be
> > marked as old. Something similar to the mark_old setting we have in
> > mutt.
>
> Does Message => Toggle Flag => New not do what you want?

No. This action just adds a header line "Status: O". That is, it sets
the status of the message as "Old". The message is considered as old and
unread.

I would like to be able to just remove the "Old" status of the message
so that it will be considered new and unread.

I also would like to have such configurayion for all folders at once,
not just as an action in a given message.

Currently if I use balsa for reading a few of the many new messages in
my set of mail folders, and then exit balsa, all those new messages that
was not read get the status of "Old". I just want this behaviour to be
optional. This way I would have the possibility of not adding the
"Status: Old" header line by balsa.

This is important to me because currently I use mutt as my mail client,
but I want to partially migrate to a graphical mail client and would
like it to be balsa. There are some circunstances where I want to still
use mutt. So basically I will be interchangeably using mutt and balsa
for reading mail. And I want mutt to see the new unread messages after
using balsa as really new, and not as old.

Currently mutt has such configuration option. See
http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-6.html

> From its documentation:

   mark_old

   Type: boolean
   Default: yes

   Controls whether or not Mutt makes the distinction between new
   messages and old unread messages. By default, Mutt will mark new
   messages as old if you exit a mailbox without reading them. The next
   time you start Mutt, the messages will show up with an "O" next to
   them in the index menu, indicating that they are old. In order to
   make Mutt treat all unread messages as new only, you can unset this
   variable.

Romildo