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

[Jack <ostroffjh sbcglobal net>]

On 2015.04.14 19:51, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
[snipped most]
sorry - but more questions...

> Balsa uses five message flags to characterize the state of a message,  
> corresponding to five of the six IMAP flags  
> <URL:http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3501.html> (Balsa doesn't use  
> \Draft):
>
>         \Seen
>            Message has been read
>
>         \Answered
>            Message has been answered
>
>         \Flagged
>            Message is "flagged" for urgent/special attention
>
>         \Deleted
>            Message is "deleted" for removal by later EXPUNGE
>
>         \Recent
>            Message is "recently" arrived in this mailbox.  This  
> session
>            is the first session to have been notified about this
>            message; if the session is read-write, subsequent sessions
>            will not see \Recent set for this message.  This flag can  
> not
>            be altered by the client.
>
> For an mbox-style back-end, Balsa stores these as follows:
>
>         \Seen:          'R' in the Status header
>         \Answered       'A' in the X-Status header
>         \Flagged:               'F' in the X-Status header
>         \Deleted                'D' in the X-Status header
>         \Recent         no 'O' in the Status header
>
> So toggling 'New' (or 'Unread'--I've no idea why it's labeled  
> differently in the Message menu and the context menu!) will add or  
> remove the 'R' in the Status header.

Observation:  not only does it use different labels, the context menu  
only has Flagged and Unread, missing Answered and Deleted.  (Also not  
that the label says "Unread" no matter what the current state, even  
though it seems the flag indicates Read not Unread.)

Also noticed: I have a maildir folder, and just grepping for the status  
header in all messages (in the 'cur' folder) most have no value, some  
have R and a few more have RO.  In addition, there are messages in this  
folder with the flagged icon and some with the answered icon, but I see  
no F nor A in any status flag header.  This is with Balsa 2.5.1.  Am I  
missing something?

Jack