On 2014-09-29 08:16, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote: 

> Muting was implemented to be used on mailing lists where you would not 
> normally be the direct recipient. For example, the message you just sent was 
> from you to [email protected]. If I had muted the thread then I would 
> not have seen it. But if you had replied to my email address directly then I 
> would still have seen the message due to the exception described.

That make sense. Thank you for the explanation. 

> My understanding of "mute" is that it automatically marks further messages in 
> the same thread as read. I would expect it to do this regardless of whether 
> my address is in the To: field. However, the Mute command has never had any 
> effect on further messages when I use it in MailMate, so I'm trying to 
> determine how my understanding is incomplete. 
> 
> I assume that in this case the thread is a thread of personal correspondence 
> in which you are an explicit recipient (although maybe one of many explicit 
> recipients).

Unfortunately, no, I've never tried to use muting on a thread in which I
am an explicit recipient. I've only tried to use it on the MailMate
mailing list, which is the only high-volume mailing list to which I'm
subscribed. It seems to have no effect. 

> Well, strong muting is perhaps what you would expect from muting, but you run 
> the risk of muting too much.

I will try setting that preference and see if it helps. 

 
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