Re: [Evolution] Proposal: to eliminate the digest option for the Evolution mailing list

[George Reeke <reeke mail rockefeller edu>]

> Brewster replies:
>
> George, I'm not sure you're fully utilizing Evolution's capabilities.
> When I fire up Evolution, I see my 
> entire list of folders, first thing. So I don't understand your
> phraseology "look in all those other folders
> to see if something has arrived".  I have dozens of folders, and every
> time I download my latest 
> email, any folder that has new arrivals  is clearly flagged, including
> the *number* of new messages
> that just hit that folder.  So I don't have to "look in all those
> other folders" ; all I have to do is
> scan the list to see which ones might have new traffic.
> ewster
>
> As far as I have ever seen, those numbers in parens after each
> folder bear no relationship to whether I have read the messages
> or not.  Maybe this is because I mostly read them in the preview
> window and don't double click on them to read them in their own
> window?  And after reading them in the preview I either delete
> them or move them to a specific folder.  So everything in the
> inbox is always new and everything in any other folder (except
> ones I send stuff to with filters) is not new.  The lists where
> I look at digests are not important enough to me to be filtered
> to their own folder; those are generally for stuff I want to keep.
> Very simple.
> GNR