Re: [Evolution] Automatic email selection when changing folder

[contact jpfleury net]

Hi Andre,

Thanks for your answer. With my workflow, I would say that it's the 
current setting that forces me to always perform an additional action 
instead of just sometimes. Here are two examples:

- Often, I just want to check the subject of new emails (because I'll 
process them elsewhere or later), so I select a folder to look at what's 
new. Since Evolution automatically selects the oldest unread email, I 
have to mark it again as unread.

- When I search for an older email and then select it, I'm not really 
interested to have it selected automatically the next time I go in this 
folder. I already found the information I was searching for, so there's 
no reason Evolution should automatically select this old email from 2017 
the next time I go in this folder. It prevents me to quickly see the 
most recent emails the next time I look at this folder.

I'm testing Evolution in order to switch from Thunderbird, but I find 
this little default setting quite disturbing because when I select a 
folder, I don't know where I'll be located in it: "Why am I in the 
bottom of this folder, automatically selecting an old email from 2017? 
Ah, yes, I checked this message some time ago."

Regards,

Jean-Philippe

Le 19-10-26 à 06 h 26, Andre Klapper a écrit :
> On Fri, 2019-10-25 at 23:39 -0400, contact jpfleury net wrote:
> > I use Evolution 3.34.1-2 on Xubuntu 19.10. When I select a folder on
> > the
> > left pane, Evolution automatically jumps to the previous email selected
> > in this folder or the oldest unread message. Is there a way to configure
> > this feature? I would just like Evolution to select nothing when I go to
> > another folder.
> Please elaborate which underlying problem is solved by forcing the user
> to always perform an additional action, instead of just sometimes.
>
> andre
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