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From: dattier@chinet.chi.il.us (David W. Tamkin)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: marking filtered mail as new
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.044930.9941@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 11 Jun 91 04:49:30 GMT
References: <1991Jun9.031051.12293@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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Organization: Chinet Public Access Unix, Chicago, Illinois
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dnmiller@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David Neal Miller) wrote in
<1991Jun9.031051.12293@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> in comp.mail.elm:

| The only problem is that newly-arrived mail in these files is not marked as
| N, since, I suppose, they've already been acted upon by a filter.  This
| makes it a bit more difficult to scan the files for newly arrived mail
| (though sorting as I do by date puts the newer messages at or near the top
| of the list).

I don't think filter is at fault.  Elm doesn't seem to display the N if you
are reading any folder other than your incoming mailbox.  mailx will show the
N in its header display of a folder containing unread letters that have been
put there by filter's save and savecopy commands, so it's not filter's doing.

On the other hand, you can be running Elm on your incoming mailbox and save
or copy an unread letter to another folder; when you use Elm to examine that
other folder, the N will not be displayed in the index, even though its
Status: header is identical to the original in your incoming folder, for
which Elm's index is duly showing an N.

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