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

[Vikram Goyal <vikigoyal gmail com>]

On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 13:26 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote:

> 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... :-)

I understand your confusion. In mutt one can keep messages new even
after the maildir has been accessed by the client. It simply keeps them
in new sub folder. But the same is implemented in EVO differently, since
it keeps an index of the mails which it creates when starting and maybe
in between also.

I was accessing the same Maildirs from both the clients and it was
becoming difficult for me to read the lists mails from mutt after
accessing the same from EVO. There are key bindings where one can jump
to new mails by pressing TAB and which do not work on OLD mails.

Anyways since the client is configurable, I created a hook to circumvent
the problem. I think both the clients are right in their own perspective
ways.

> 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. :-)

Its not feasible with thousands of mails pouring in.

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