Re: [Evolution] How to keep unread seen messages remain new.

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

> hi vikram,
> perhaps one has to be a mutt user because i still don't get it. what is
> the advantage of setting an email to "seen but not read"? to me it's
> nearly the same as "not read", at least i will realize that i already
> have seen an email that i have set to unread after reading the first few
> lines of it... :-)
> you can always set an email to "unread" after you have read it by "edit
> | mark as unread", there is even a shortcut for that. you can also
> change the value when messages are marked as read in the preferences
> under "mail preferences | message display". perhaps this will come close
> to what you NEED and what evolution obviously does not have. :-)

Maybe mutt is like elm, it has a 'new' flag in the message list, and if you don't read the mail in that session, next time you start elm it shows up as 'old'.  But it doesn't have an explicitly shown 'read' status (although i think it still stores one).  If mutt works like this instead then it would conflict with the way evolution does.  A workaround might be to access it through imap, but i don't see why imap would behave any differently, since it also moves messages from 'new' to 'cur' when you access the mailbox, and this is generally the basis of the RECENT flag in imap+maildir implementations.