Greets, I wanted to thank those that responded. The advice was very useful and I am now able to navigate the lists effectively. I don't see a batching option, or thread delete on kmail - yet. But Now I just read thru the thread and select it and use the 'd' key. Very nice.
thanks again. On Thursday 24 May 2001 12:29, David Bishop wrote: > On Thursday 24 May 2001 10:28, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I really like being able to thread messages on lists, but reading through > > them is next to impossible. I just finished re-reading the help files but > > I don't see any way to read the mail without jumping wildly through out > > read and unread messages. > > > > What I would like to do is have my mail sorted by date, then by threads. > > Now, the first thread that I come to is ok, the next will jump somewhere > > deep into un-read territory. Finally the next may or may not take me to > > the next thread. So my next unread message is lost in the depths of > > unread mails, instead of back to the top to continue reading in a linear > > date sorted fashion. Other mailers do this? > > > > Any help on reading mails with threading enabled would be much > > appreciated. I'm obviously missing the finer points of this code. > > > > tia > > I think your major problem is that (it sounds like) you are deleteing each > email as you read it. When you do that, Kmail resorts all of the other > messages in the thread, and splits stuff off/whatnot because the missing > email can't be referenced anymore. The work around is to read throughout > the thread, and then delete in batches. For instance, I read your email > and then the reply by Hendrik before deleting either, because otherwise > Hendrik's would have dropped four messages down to the bottom of my inbox. > Not optimal, but as long as kmail immediately moves deleted mail to the > trash, instead of just "marking" them as deleted (like mutt), this will be > an issue. > > HTH, > > D.A.Bishop > > P.S. I'm not advocating a "mark for delete" paradigm. I much prefer the > current system. But I do recognize the tradeoff :-) -- Jaye Inabnit\ARS ke6sls/TELE: USA-707-442-6579\/A GNU-Debian linux user Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB: http://www.qsl.net/ke6sls ICQ: 12741145 If it's stupid, but works, it ain't stupid. SHOUT JUST FOR FUN. Free software, in a free world, for a free spirit. Please Support freedom!
