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Setup: I have a mailserver with mutt installed. The server also has the dovecot IMAP server installed. I read mail both on the server using mutt, and using IMAP clients (eg on my phone). Mail is stored in Maildir folders.

Folder and mutt configuration: I use procmail to deliver incoming mail to various folders. My mutt configuration uses the mailboxes command to check the folders for new mail.

Problem: when my IMAP clients sync, dovecot changes the messages to a status that mutt interprets as the O (Old) status, rather than the N (New) status (see Read and unread in mutt), and the mailboxes command does not regard folders which have only O messages in them as containing unread mail. But I would like it to continue to list these folders: the mere fact of an IMAP client syncing with the server doesn't mean that I no longer want to be able to read that same email on the server, or even that I've seen it on the server.

Is there a way to either have mutt regard folders containing O messages as having new mail for the purposes of the mailbox functionality or having dovecot not change the status of mails from N to O when it syncs them with an IMAP client?

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If you read mail directly from the maildirs, you need to set

set maildir_check_cur

as dovecot moves mail from new/ to cur/.

(Personally, I use IMAP for mutt too, because that way I can use the same configuration on multiple hosts, and I don't even have mutt running on the host storing the mails anymore.)

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