Randy Noval wrote: > actually, default behavior for mail clients that mark as deleted rather > than move the message to the trash folder is to leave it marked as > unread. they are different statuses that have nothing to do with each > other. what you're talking about is combining the "delete" function with > the "mark as read" function. they are separate for a reason. what you're > saying is when you "mark as deleted" you also want to "mark as read" > which could be a user option, but not one that is by default because > they are not the same. >
Which mail clients? I can only test with Thunderbird, but without a doubt it marks deleted messages as "seen" and futhermore does not restore the "unseen" flag if you undelete a message. I think a perfectly rational argument could be made for both cases, and that it depends solely on how you use/interpret the "new" flag. For some the act of deleting a message is enough to mark it as seen. To use an analogy, if I throw away a piece of snail mail unopened and my girlfriend asks me if I've seen it, my response would be "yeah, I saw it, and I threw it away." In any case, given my opinion that it could go either way, I'm more interested in the consensus of other clients. Given a scenario where there are two "right" answers, I'd prefer to program the more popular "right" answer. -Charles
