On Aug 31, 2012, at 9:46 AM, Simon Brereton <[email protected]> wrote:

> Frankly I'd prefer the Outlook behaviour -
> - the option to never automatically mark messages as seen
> - when you return, the message is selected (and if you have a preview pane,
> in the the pane).


Apple Mail also remembers selected messages from each mailbox; I imagine it 
fits into trying to be intuitive by displaying things in the state you left 
them in.  I find the behavior undesirable for two reasons: unless I have 
literally just switched from and returned to a mailbox, I'm not likely to 
remember why certain messages are selected and it starts to feel like random 
client behavior rather than something intentional or intuitive, and I do the 
same thing Jan complained about in leaving undealt-with messages marked unread 
on purpose, which this behavior messes with.

Settings to toggle this might be good, either globally or per-mailbox.  For 
some users, I could see this behavior being useful for, say, the inbox but not 
elsewhere.


-- 
Scott Dellinger
Systems Architecture & Administration
Enterprise Technology Services
The University of Vermont

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