Re: [Evolution] goto most recent feature

[Philippe LeCavalier <support plecavalier com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: ritz <khadgaray gmail com>
To: Philippe LeCavalier <support plecavalier com>
Cc: evolution-list <evolution-list gnome org>
Subject: Re: [Evolution] goto most recent feature
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:57:12 +0530
Mailer: Evolution 2.27.99 (2.27.99-1.kb.3.fc11) 

Hi

On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 14:14 -0400, Philippe LeCavalier wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>
> To: evolution-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] goto most recent feature
> Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:51:55 -0430
> Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 (2.26.3-1.fc11)
> 
> On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 09:48 -0400, Philippe LeCavalier wrote:
> > Is there a way to have Evo go to the most recent message when
> > selecting a folder? I like sorting my mail oldest to newest - bottom
> > being the most recent message but Evo defaults to selecting the
> > top-most message...Aside from the obvious workaround of sorting the
> > mail newest on top, what can I do?
> 
> AFAIK, this is not currently possible. I seem to remember a feature
> request about it a long time ago but I'm too lazy to search the BZ
> database :-)
> 
> Note that Evo doesn't in fact always select the top-most message. It
> selects the last message visited if it knows what it is. For some reason
> it forgets this from time to time -- I've never bothered looking into
> what the conditions are -- and just heads for the topmost message.
> 
> Personally I would like an algorithm like this:
> 
> 1) If there is a remembered "last visited message", select it
> 
> else:
> 
> 2) If there are unread messages, select the oldest of them (or
> optionally the newest one). Oldest and newest to be defined by the
> timestamp of the message reception, not the sender's date header.
> 
> else:
> 
> 3) select the newest message, which may be at the top or the bottom or
> even in the middle, depending on the sort order.
Evolution does provide a filer to display "Recent messages", listed
besides "Show", along with "Read messages","Unread messages",....

> 
> poc
> 
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> Your suggestion would be perfect.
> 
> Another thing, what about the ability to search message filters? I've
> got tons of them and recently when I switched IMAP servers Evo lost
> touch with all the "move to" folders - which is to be expected. I
> found it mind-numbing to comb through the list for a particular filter
> to update the folder it should move the message to.
> 
> Phil
> 
> ...just realized I did Reply and not Reply All 
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I don't see that anywhere...May be different because I'm using IMAP I dunno? Or maybe it becomes avail. via a plugin?

It's not really what I'm looking for either though.

Cheers,
Phil