In message <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAfIuZ1uAZ0BGnLERFU1QAAMKAAAAQAAAAJZKjBXtRWk+4rgaomyaVxwEAAAAA@nomotek.com>, Dallman Ross wrote:
LuKreme ("Kreemy") wrote on 1 August 2007:
On 30-Jul-2007, at 11:55, N.J. Mann wrote:
{ TRAP='mv $LASTFOLDER ${LASTFOLDER}:2,F' }
Sorry, I just have no idea what that is supposed to do. I don't even know where to begin.
Well, gee, Kreemy. We discussed it a couple or three years ago when you were on the list.
It was in November 2006. :-) See: http://mailman.rwth-aachen.de/pipermail/procmail/2006-November/025064.html I knew what I wanted to do, but wasn't sure of the best way to do it. David W. Tamkin was kind enough to suggest the TRAP method. Thanks for answering "Kreemy". I was just about to until I saw your reply. You explained TRAP far better than I could have done!
LASTFOLDER knows where in the maildir hierarchy the file was saved and what its name is. Maildir uses that :2,F thing on the end to mark messages read. Voila.
Actually, the :2,F "flags" the mail, it doesn't mark it as read or "seen" which is the maildir mailbox format term. To mark a message as seen you need to add ":2,S" - as Michelle Konzack correctly pointed out. (Next time I will not rush when posting a reply to the list. I _will_ double and triple check my facts!) http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html has an explanation of maildir mailbox format.
Oh, and ignore that mess that Michelle posted with all sorts of
Actually, I think Michelle may be correct, but I haven't tested the recipes posted by Michelle. I suspect if you just add the :2,S suffix without moving the message from the "new" directory to the "cur", the MUA will treat the message an old unread message rather than a read message, which is what the original poster wanted. Cheers, Nick. --