Re: [Evolution] Junk Mail marked as read

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 21:53 +0000, Neil wrote:
> I'm new to Evolution, and there are a few simple things that I'd expect
> it can probably do but I can't seem to find the option for.  I'm using
> 2.24.3 on Linux Mint.  What I want to be able to do is:
>
> Have the default of threaded view for newsgroups, but not threaded for
> mail.  Currently selecting one option seems to set it everywhere.

Don't know. I never use Evo for news.

> Have "All Messages" for most folders, but "Unread Messages" for Junk.
> Again, setting it in one folder seems to affect others, although
> strangely not always.

This works for me.

> Be able to see which junk mail is new.  Currently I get the Junk folder
> highlighted and a count against it, but all of the mails in it are
> marked as read.  Is this normal behaviour, seems like a bug maybe?

Known bug.

> Have short mail addresses in the from column.  Currently it's showing,
> for instance,  "Fred Bloggs <fredb fredbloggs xyz>" where I'd just like
> "Fred Bloggs".

I don't think that's possible. You can ask for an enhancement at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org

> The option to mark a whole thread as read.

Folder->Select Message Thread (Ctrl-H), then Message->Mark As->Read
(Ctrl-K). My fingers know Ctrl-H-K without even thinking about it :-)

poc