Re: [Evolution] Mark as Not Junk

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 23:26 -0400, Paul Harouff wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 23:27, Paul Harouff wrote:
> > > Evo 1.5.6
> > > 
> > > When I right click and select Mark as Not Junk, where do the files
> > > go?  They appear to be permanently deleted (not even in trash). This
> > > is definitely not the behavior I would expect.
> > > 
>
> > On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 23:48 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > they "go back" to the original folder they were delivered to (Junk is
> > really just a vFolder and so it doesn't actually get moved anywhere when
> > you unset the junk flag).
> > 
>
> I don't know what happened. I lost three e-mails the other day. Now I
> really wish that I had read them completely before marking them as Not
> Junk.
>
> I tried it on some unimportant junk mail and it appears to be working
> today. One observation ... "Mark as Not Junk" and "Delete" are too close
> to each other.
I disagree, they're separated by a separator.
> I thought I might have accidentally selected Delete, but I couldn't find
> the messages in Trash either. They just disappeared without a trace. And
> I can't believe I made the same mistake three times.
>
> I think making Junk a v-Folder is a stupid idea. This feature is not
> usable if you can't predict the behavior of where the messages will end
> up when you remove the flag. Especially when the message is marked as
> already read so there is no visible cue whatsoever as to where it went. 
Ugh, you can totally gurantee where they end up - where they came from.  Infact since they don't move anywhere, they were always there anyway, you just can't see them.
> Junk mail should never be sorted. It should be physically placed in the
> Junk folder and physically moved to the Inbox folder when the flag is
> removed. Then you can force it to be sorted with Ctrl-Y after you have
> verified it's retrieved.
ctrl-y doesn't sort though.

Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> Ximian Evolution and Free Software Developer

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