On 11 Jan 2019, at 6:42, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
On 26 Dec 2018, at 17:32, Randall Gellens wrote:
On 26 Dec 2018, at 6:38, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
On 25 Dec 2018, at 22:13, Randall Gellens wrote:
When the displayed count for a mailbox is "Recent," what does MM
count?
It counts emails having the IMAP `\Recent` flag. This is not as useful
as it might seem to be.
Exactly; the IMAP \Recent flag is not much use.
I would like to suggest that there be an option for the count to be
"Unread messages that have arrived in the past [count] [unit]"
where count and unit are settings (global or per-account or
per-mailbox). For example, setting count to 7 and unit to days
would count unread messages that arrived in the past week.
I use a smart folder for recent unread messages.
Sure, I could do that, and I can see that being especially useful in
certain cases, but to do that universally would mean twice as many
mailboxes as I now have, and also mentally ignoring every actual
mailbox and only paying attention to the smart mailboxes. Since MM
has a count and allows changing what the count is counting, it seems
reasonable to request that it count unread "recent" for reasonable
values of "recent."
I believe I understand what you would like to do. I'm going to
consider it a request for something more general, that is, being able
to define custom counters (low-level I actually think this is already
possible).
Maybe the most “intuitive” way would be to have a menu item in the
Displayed Count allowing one to count whatever intersects with some
other mailbox. For example:
Displayed Count ▸ ...
Also in Mailbox ▸ ...
...
That would allow you to use any smart mailbox you have defined.
I would not find that of much use, since I have a fairly large number of
actual IMAP mailboxes spread across various accounts and would not want
to have to create smart mailboxes for every actual mailbox I have.
Steven already suggested using smart mailboxes. What I would like is a
way to have the mailbox counter display unread messages that have
arrived within the last x time period (e.g., unread messages that
arrived in the last ten days or two weeks). This would make it easy to
see at a glance if a mailbox has something new in it.
We've previously discussed having mailboxes stand out in some way when
new mail arrives in them, such as being in bold font. I think that
would be quite helpful, either as an alternative or in addition to a
flexible counter.
--Randall
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