Subject: cosmetic bug regarding 'new message' display when deleting from other IMAP client?

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 16:44:14 -0800 (PST)

Ok, now I can't get this to reproduce at will..

But I use (at least) two mail clients on my work account, pine, plus often
a GUI client for the MIME-infected mail that is basically unreadable in pine.
(e.g. big tables, some necessary color viewing, etc..)  The other client I use
is usually MailViewer, though I use Outlook Express on a MacOS (as opposed
to OSX) machine sometimes too..

Anyway, back to the topic.

I noticed that I saw "15 new messages! Most recent..."
at the bottom of the screen, but there really was only ONE new message, as 
I had read and expunged others (presumably the rest of the 15) from another
client running simultaneously.

I can't get this to happen at will, because sending myself mail causes
the 'new mail to you' prompt to come up..    Though now I notice that I have
it saying _3_ new messages, but there are really 4 messages marked 'N', the
other one being the same "one new message" I mentioned above.

Is there a (minor, cosmetic) bug, or am I misinterpreting what it's trying
to tell me?  The current "3 new messages" might be correct, if I had
actually done something else in pine (I don't think I did) and it's really
only saying new since I last interacted with it... but that certainly doesn't
fit with the Joe User expectation since I clearly see that 4 have N next to
them.

Uggh, a long rambling explanation for such a simple problem.

BTW, I'm using 4.20.

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From: Scott Leibrand <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:04:52 -0800 (PST)

Not sure if this explains your problem, but...

Pine doesn't actually check for messages marked "new", but for "recent"
messages, which are ones that have shown up since the last time you opened
a folder.  The new or recent status of a message becomes clear if you
change your inbox-format to contain the IMAPSTATUS item instead of the
regular STATUS one.  (While you're at it, use SmartDate.)  Here's what my
index-format looks like - try it out this way if you want:

index-format=ATT IMAPSTATUS MSGNO SMARTDATE(6) TIME12 FROMORTO(33%) SIZE SUBJECT(67%)

ATT is number of attachments.

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