On 03/04/03 Susan Kleinmann uttered the following other thing:
> When I use the left mouse button, nothing appears to happen for two of the
> three folders it is tracking. For the 3rd folder, some screen appears and
> disappears quickly. How can I make the left mouse button work?

You have to press and hold the left mouse button. If there are unread
messages in that folder, then gbuffy should display a list of the
from/subject lines for those messages, similar to this screen shot:

http://www.fiction.net/blong/programs/gbuffy/gbuffy_newmail.gif

If this isn't working, then its a bug.

> When I execute mutt on some folder, and use the command "L ~N" to limit the
> display to only new messages, I get a list of messages which is much shorter
> than the number of new messages as indicated on the gbuffy button. What
> does the gbuffy program mean by "new"?

Hmm, I thought they were the same... what type of mailbox are you using?
If you can get the left mouse button to work, can you compare which of
the messages gets displayed?

Hmm, iirc, mutt has a setting related to marking old messages new or not
(ie, N or O)... yeah, the mark_old setting. gbuffy always works in the
mark_old = yes setting, ie no Status or not Status: OR. With IMAP, it
just uses the \Recent flag, which might not be quite the same thing,
depending on the IMAP server.

> Wish:
> It would be nice if one could cause the display to change the background
> color (or give some other visual clue) corresponding to a mailbox based on
> whether mail had been received since the last time that icon had been
> activated (clicked on).

Yeah, that makes sense.

> As you can see, the above problems are related: Clicking on the left
> mouse button has no effect on my system, so I am unable to see which
> messages that gbuffy claims are new. Whatever gbuffy claims to be new
> is different from what mutt claims to be new. In any case, I'd like to
> get some very non-subtle hint when messages "of interest" arrive.
>
> If there's a quick fix to all of the above, I would appreciate learning
> about it.

In theory, those two behaviors are bugs. There currently isn't a quick
fix.

Brandon
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