Re: [Evolution] mark_seen confusion

[Carl Schaefer <schaefer trilug org>]

On Wed, 2014-05-14 at 09:33 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-05-13 at 16:53 -0400, Carl Schaefer wrote:
> > > It's easy to prevent this by unsetting the Mark Messages Read box in
> > > Mail Preferences. I always unset it and then explicitly mark messages as
> > > read as I deal with them.
> >
> > maybe I should try that approach, it would probably help me keep my
> > inbox manageable.  However, I still think the current behavior with
> > "Mark Messages Read" checked is buggy.
>
> Note that the message is marked as read only if you're using Preview
> mode (since logically it means that you *have* read the message).

that makes sense, and it does match the current behavior.  However,
having lived with the current behavior for a couple months I find myself
wanting something else, and since there's code and a comment in
e-mail-reader.c that seems to indicate the "something else" that I want
is actually the intended behavior, I'm inclined to consider the current
behavior to be a bug.
Carl