Re: [Evolution] Keeping states

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 13:12 -0400, Eric Preston wrote:
> > Secondly, I think nowadays it's far from unusual for people to read mail
> > from more than one location (at least home and office, probably more if
> > they travel a lot). It's just a fact of life.
>
> That's probably true, but that's not what we're talking about. You read
> from multiple locations then you're hopefully doing it with IMAP over
> ipsec or something. I'm talking about the simple case of reading local
> mail (local Evo mailboxes grabbed from POP) and expecting the position
> of selected messages in index views to remain the same across folder
> changes and returns as well as quitting and restarting the application.
>
> Open question: Why is this not doable?

I only use IMAP but one would certainly expect this to work in the
scenario you describe. If it doesn't it's broken.

> > Or you could use a vFolder and avoid duplicating messages.
>
> No I can't. Because when I get new mail bettween reads the scroll
> position will be screwed up just as with regular folders... therefore I
> resort to deleting duplicate messages in another folder for the purpose
> so that the latest (but oldest) mail on the list is top of the window
> with no need to scroll to find it.

I'm not sure what "latest (but oldest)" means. Maybe you could define
the vFolder based on message status (e.g. status is-not Read).

poc