Interviewed by CNN on 05/03/2013 22:15, Roger Fink told the world: > > > -------- Original Message -------- >> I'm relatively new to the seamonkey newsreader and I'm trying to make >> peace with it. I'm just about there except for one feature I need, and >> that is a way to distinguish read from unread posts. Among the >> user-selectable column headers there is a category, "read", which when >> checked displays a green dot after a given header, including responses >> within a thread. That ought to do it, but unfortunately every message in >> every thread, read or unread, displays the green dot, so I'm either >> doing something wrong, or misinterpreting what it is supposed to >> represent, or it doesn't work. What's actually happening here? >> >> > OK, I think I get it. It's not automatic, unlike the late lamented OE. > You click the dot, you lose the dot, and that is how the read/unread > distinction is expressed.
Actually, it can be automatic. Edit/Preferences/Mail & Newsgroups/Message Display Tick the box that says "Automatically mark messages as read" and choose your preferences below accordingly. I set mine to turn to "read" after 1 second. It has been that way a long time, but I think I remember the original default being 3 seconds. The "read" column is a bit of a misnomer; the green dot actually marks the message as UNread. To Paul Gallagher: Making the "Read" and "Junk Status" columns gives a few benefits beyond simply seeing the message status. First, there's easy sorting, of course. Just click on the column header and all your unread messages will bunch together at one end. I find this useful when there's a few unread messages lost among the rest. Another one is to easily toggle the read/unread (or spam/ham, for that matter) status of a message with a single click, as easily as you toggle the "Flag" status. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my Mentat. * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey 2.16 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
