Amadeusz Żołnowski <aidecoe@aidecoe.name> writes:

> What's more surprising is that there is a test case in notmuch test
> suite which test whether after modifing tag of a mail it is moved from
> new/ to cur/. Yes, it should be moved on any tag modification if I
> understand correctly. But it seems it does not for my maildirs...
>

If I understand the code correctly, this movement will only happen when
one of the maildir-flag-equivalent tags is changed. I haven't dug ack
through the archives, but I think mutt uses presence in new/ as some
kind of extra unseen state, so people requested not to move files until
needed.

d