Re: [Evolution] Newer mail in a folder hint (mail count is not enough)

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

The problem is that unread mail is not necessarily the same as "newly
arrived" mail. Since he keeps unread mail in each folder, the unread
count doesn't help him because it doesn't distinguish between unread
count and "new" count.

My guess is that Mozilla-Mail uses the "*" to show which folders got new
mail delivered into them since the last send&receive check.

Evolution doesn't currently have this functionality, but I suppose it
might be a nice feature to have. Feel free to add it to bugzilla as a
feature request.

Jeff

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 15:06 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 12:11 -0500, Adam Gibson wrote:
> > One thing that is keeping me from using evolution is a feature that I am 
> > having trouble finding an equivalent for that Thunderbird has.  When you 
> > have a bunch of unread mail in an imap folder(not everyone has time to 
> > read them all) and new mail comes in on that folder a * will be placed 
> > next to the folder to let you know that new mail has arrived since you 
> > last looked at that folder.
> >
> > I tend to have a bunch of folders with unread mail(subjects are not 
> > interesting enough to look at yet or just not enough time or whatever) 
> > so it is nice to have some kind of hint that new mail has arrived.  Just 
> > increasing the folder mail count is not enough because I can not 
> > remember dozens of folders worth of mail counts which caused me to have 
> > to scan every folder 1 by 1 every once in awhile to see if new mail has 
> > arrived.
> >
> > Does evolution have a feature somewhere that can be enabled that gives 
> > this functionality?  I would really like to use evolution because of the 
> > calendar integration with the gnome desktop but this one feature is 
> > really hard to live without with my mail usage.
>
> Asterisks?  Attached is my folder tree, and as you can see, it is
> very easy to determine which folders have unread emails in them,
> and how many there are.
>
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Jeffrey Stedfast
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