If you dont want to read them, jus tread what you want, and do 'mark all
as read' ?

On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 08:21, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 02:27, Oliver Kurlvink wrote:
> > hi there :)
> > 
> > i know there have been many discussions in the past about how to handle
> > the notification of new mails. afaik the current position is "to bold"
> > folders which have unread mails. that's okay to see whether there are
> > unread mails, but it does not tells you if there are new mails. just
> > take a folder with 200 mails and 2 unread mails. these two mails arrived
> > two weeks ago and you just not want read them, because they seem to be
> > spam. now you fetch mail and get 20 new mails.
> 
> My approach is to move all obvious spam to a separate folder. I have a
> filter that catches the worst offenders. I then scan the spam folder for
> any false positives and move them back to the inbox, mark all read (from
> the Edit menu), switch to inbox, move all the remaining spam to the spam
> folder, and again mark all read.
> 
> Any messages I've read and which need some response but which I don't
> want to deal with immediately go in a ToDo folder.
> 
> My objective is to keep the Inbox empty except for new, uncategorized
> mail. All expected mail is filtered to separate folders (eg. mailing
> lists, specific friends, specific product support).
> 
> BTW, I'm also an ex-PMMail user. I got tired of waiting for the PMMail
> developers to get things like IMAP and TLS implemented and decided to go
> for an open source GUI client. If I really want a feature and no one
> else wants to code it, I can always implement it myself.
> 
> 
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