On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 11:45:21PM -0700, Will Yardley wrote: > > The first one is a problem because the mail ISN'T new... it's been > > seen already, it just hasn't been read. > > I think this should (ideally) be configurable either way. Absolutely, assuming mutt's current model. But let's pretend your mailer did the following: - allowed you to list folders in order of priority (as mutt does, and I do this too) - considers newly delivered mail in all folders as "new" - when changing folders, assumes new mail in the current folder is not currently important to you, so remembers that mail as "unread" - selects the first folder in the list with "new" mail - when no "new" mail remains, select the first folder with "unread" mail - when no "unread" mail remains, selects the next folder in the list after the one you're currently in If you had this behavior, is there any reason to make it configurable? Is there any reason why anyone would want something different? I suppose there may be one, but I can't conceive of it. > Personally, this "problem" is one reason I like Maildir. If I > haven't opened a message, just the folder it's in, I don't consider > it "seen" or "old" yet - it's still new to me. But there is good reason to distinguish between "new" mail, and "unread" mail. You may not have read a particular message, but from seeing its sender and subject, you may already know that it's a message you don't need to see (or even don't have time to look at) right now. But as you say, you haven't read it yet, so you want your mailer to remember that, and bring you back to it later. That is, withouth bringing you back to it EVERY TIME YOU TRY TO CHANGE FOLDERS. I'm surprised that more people don't find that extremely annoying. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thank the spammers.
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