On Feb 1, 2008 1:58 PM, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> This issue comes up every week or two on the list, it seems.  It's
> obvious that Evolution is not behaving as people expect, regardless of
> the technical details behind it.  In situations like that we MUST either
> (a) fix the behavior to work as expected as much as possible, OR (b)
> document the situation so people can understand what's going on!
>

I would vote for A.  Just doing B would mean that I can quickly find out
that I don't want to use Evolution, which is an improvement over the current
situation, but I need A for Evolution to be useful to me.

Thunderbird does the expected thing and without a performance impact.  I
strongly suspect that it just uses different logic than relying on the
server to tell it if the mail is "new".  If you're downloading a message for
the first time and it is unread, then apply the filters.  Or something very
similar to that.

If the server "new" flag can be turned off by a e-mail notifier program,
then it is just not the flag you want to use for this purpose.  Sure, it
would be nice and convenient if there was a simple flag like that to check,
but there isn't.  So do what all the other programs do.

-Steve
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