Re: Balsa marks mails as read on start

[Andreas Schmidt <pi-c arcor de>]

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On 09/28/2005 02:20:55 PM, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> No, it looks for the first unread message or, if there is no unread  
> mail, the most recent message.
>
> > In some cases (I guess when the mbox was left untouched?), it  
> > defaults to selecting the top message. When this was marked unread  
> > and (once again, I guess) it takes longer to open the next mbox, it  
> > just seems that this is enough to consider the top message as read.
>
> ??  Balsa marks a message as "read" only after displaying it.  If  
> "Automatically view message" is unchecked, it just scrolls to the  
> first unread message, but if that option is checked, the message is  
> displayed and consequently marked as "read".
>
> > This is really bad as it could mean not noticing new mail has  
> > arrived in an mbox. Any ideas how to cope with that?
>
> Uncheck "Automatically view message"?

Ooops... yes, that did it!
However, I'm not really sure I want to shut off auto-message view  
completely. Usually I don't shut balsa down, so it normally keeps  
running for days. When manually opening an mbox, "Automatically vie  
message" really is a useful feature. It's just when cycling through the  
remembered-open mboxes on start-up that it becomes a nuisance. Would it  
be possible to implement an option that disables this feature for just  
the program start-up?


Best regards,

Andreas
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