Re: Balsa marks mails as read on start

[Peter Bloomfield <peterbloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 09/28/2005 10:31:42 AM, Andreas Schmidt wrote:
> On 09/28/2005 02:20:55 PM, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
[ snip ]
> > > 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.

Nice that it's so stable!

> When manually opening an mbox, "Automatically view 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?

That could be confusing for a user who doesn't show the mailbox tabs:  
clicking on a mailbox in the list might or might not open the first  
unread message, depending on whether the mailbox was opened on startup  
or is opened in response to the click; without the tabs, the user has  
no clue about the apparent inconsistency.

Personally, I find auto-view causes more problems than it's worth: it  
opens one message, but I see a more urgent one and handle it, and then  
have a hard time finding the first one (deep in an old thread?), now  
that it's no longer unread.

Best,

Peter