Randy Noval wrote:
Charles McNulty wrote:
Randy Noval wrote:
Thunder bird works as I described. Take a bunch of emails that are not
:) It works as I described too! Wild! The option that determines it
is Tools->Account Settings->Server Settings->"When I delete a message"
if you change it to "Mark it as deleted" you'll be seeing what I'm
seeing, which is that Thunderbird loses the "seen" flag.
My patch will make it perform exactly like Thunderbird, except that
instead of a preference determining the behavior, the presense of the
Trash folder determines it. When a message is moved to the Trash
folder Seen status is maintained. When a message is marked as
deleted, Seen status is lost.
-Charles
No, you're combining behaviors and removing the user's option to
choose. For example, on the default install of thunderbird (what most
people will use), that setting is not checked, though it is an option.
An option is what it should remain because those features are
functionally separate. If you don't want to be annoyed, you can change
the option, but it makes no sense to combine functions for what should
be a user determined preference. Just because it can work like you
describe doesn't mean that it should be the default behavior.
Okay, so since we're talking options... why can't we just say this:
If there's a trash folder:
Move to trash folder
If there's not a trash folder:
Mark as deleted
Now, a user-preference (checkbox) will define whether to mark it as
"seen"/"read" or not. If it's checked, mark it read. If not, leave it
as new.
Is that not an option?
