Re: [Evolution] How to keep unread seen messages remain new.

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

> Well, what you say is correct but as I am using maildirs, they have new,
> cur, tmp subdirs. New messages are kept in MaildirName/new/
>
> Ex: ~/Mail/lists/evolution/new/1108409253.15564_3.myfc3
>
> When the mail is marked old it is moved to MaildirName/cur/ as
>
> Ex: ~/Mail/lists/evolution/new/1108409253.15564_3.myfc3:2,
>
> When it is read, it's name is changed as
>
> Ex: ~/Mail/lists/evolution/new/1108409253.15564_3.myfc3:2,S
>
> What evo is doing here is that it is marking the mail old when it loads
> the maildirs but keeping info in index files whether the mail has
> actually been read or not. It works for evolution but breaks the other
> mail clients which exclusively depend on maildir format mailboxes
> protocol.

Evolution only uses the seen flag for this purpose.  The use of the 's' flag is entirely to maildir spec as far as i can tell.

New mail is only new until the application has run and processed them, it is for filtering/processing, and as i understand it, shouldn't be exposed to the user directly.