On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:49:25 -0500, Mike Kelly <pioto@pioto.org> wrote:
> The following patches attempt to provide a simple, extendable approach
> to handling the 'Seen' maildir flag. To appease (hopefully) everyone, it
> will only do this for new messages. This means that people coming from
> another MUA won't be stuck with 30,000 unread messages, for example.
> 
> It should be simple to extend this to other maildir flags, too, if
> people want them and can decide on what tags they should correspond to.

Personally, I like the seen messages not to be in inbox (by default) as
either:
1) I'm importing an old Maildir, in which case if it's read it's
probably been dealt with
2) i've used another mail client, same as above.

-- 
Stewart Smith