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Re: optional sleep before marking a message as "read" ?



> It was Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 10:48:05PM +0200 when Guilhem Bichot said:
> Hi,
> 
> Here's my question-from-a-dummy:
> migrating from another MUA, I get caught by this in Mutt (which is
> otherwise astonishingly efficient):
> when I read emails using the mode where you have a list of emails in
> the top half of the page and the body of the selected email in the
> bottom half, as soon as I pass on one email, even if it's just for a
> fraction of second because I'm in fact going quickly down to another
> more important email, the email I pass on gets marked "read". So when
> I want to come back to it later I have trouble finding it again...
> 
> I have seen in some other MUAs: a configurable amount of time: "only
> if I pass more than X seconds on the email then mark it as "read"".
> I could not find the equivalent in the muttrc file.
> Is this possible in Mutt? Is there a workaround?
> Would you consider this a useful addition (if yes, I could contribute
> for this; what would be the best name for the configurable time
> variable?) ?

I hadn't even thought about this since switching to mutt, but now that
you mention it I have scanned through messages and wished they hadn't
been marked read. I would like to see this implemented as well.

-- 
Sami Samhuri

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