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Can neomutt not mark mail as read when viewing?

Some email clients like thunderbird allow this.

ideasman42
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I would say that function display-message which opens the message in a pager marks the message as read automatically.

But you can create macro below for pager menu. Message would still be marked as read, but before exiting the pager, message will be marked as new. This would probably work only if you're using internal pager.

bind pager q noop # because mutt cannot unbind, but can bind noop.
macro pager q "<mark-as-new><exit>"

if you use recent version of neomutt you can also utilise unbind command

unbind pager q
macro pager q "<mark-as-new><exit>"

If you want to preserve q pager's binding for closing the pager and marking the message read, it's simple. There are two keys bound to the same function. Both q and i exits the pager. Just replace the q with i in the macro. And you're done.

select message enter to display it and:

  • q exit pager and keep the message marked as read

  • i exit pager and and mark the message as new

Jakub Jindra
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