On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 08:25:38AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> I moved my /var/mail partition to a different disk drive
> by:
> creating a new ext4 partition
> mounting it as /newvarmail
> copying the contents of the old /var/mail partition to it
> unmounting both the old and new mail partitions
> updating the /etc/fstab entry by
> chainging the partition name
> changing the file system to ext4 from ext3
> mounting the new one as /ver/mail
> Everything seems to work smoothly except for one thing:
> When I read a new message in mutt, the 'N' indicaating it is new does not disappear after reading it.
>
> (And one time only, mutt mentioned that the mail file was read-only.)
>
It may be silly, but have you tried pressing the key combination:
"SHIFT + %" ?
Sometimes I have mistakenly pressed that key combination and it put my
mailbox in read-only mode.
I have Mutt 2.0.5 (2021-01-21) in Devuan Chimaera.
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~gast0n
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