On 5/10/2002 1:46 PM, someone claiming to be Parish wrote:
<snip>
> 
> There was a thread running a while ago related to this, the argument 
> being that if you trash-canned an unread message that it should be 
> marked read automatically. The counter argument was that if it was put 
> there by a mail filter and was, in fact, a false hit then you might miss 
> a mail you wished to read.
> 
> I tend to side with the second argument because, for example, I filter 
> everything from hotmail.com, yahoo.com, and aol.com to Trash because 
> 90+% of messages /I/ get from these domains are spam, but occassionally 
> I do get genuine ones so I always scan through Trash before deleting it.
> 

I disagree. If you still want to process the mail manually, filter to a folder other 
than Trash and call it something like "Potential SPAM"

> Overall I think that doing what you suggested is correct, moving a mail 
> unread to Trash should dismiss the icon but at the same time should 
> leave the message marked unread.
> 
> I guess this could cause problems as the logic of each action tends to 
> conflict with the other.
> 
> I suggest you file a bug and see what happens.
> 
<snip>

I think the *real* answer is to allow for multiple actions on a filtered piece of 
mail. One to mark it as read, then the second to move it to Trash.
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13145

If a message is not marked as read, the unread mail icon should certainly display, 
regardless of which folder the unread message happens to be occupying.

Regards, 
Tim


Reply via email to