Re: mutt development status
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 03:18:19AM -0400, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 11:45:21PM -0700, Will Yardley wrote:
> > 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.
If there are thousands or tens of thousands of new messages, you could
very well have opened a folder without seeing (or reading) the author /
subject.
There are plenty of times where I open a folder and do not look at the
subject and sender of every single message in it. Given that lots of
other mutt users receive lots of mail as well, I imagine I'm not alone
here.
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