On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 7:51 PM, RS (FEDARA) <[email protected]> wrote: > DC> unless there is some reason why marking it read right away > DC> interferes with what one wants to do with the message > > In example you read or just scan a message but you don't have time to > deal with it at the moment . In that way it stays in example in your > main (cumulative) folder and waits for it's turn.
This is exactly why my virtual folders are configured to show all unread and flagged mail. If I have read an email and still want to work with it later (e.g. write a long answer) I will simply flag it, so it stays in the virtual folder. This, by the way, is one thing that isn't possible anymore in v5, because often the email will disappear from the list once read and I can't set the flag anymore. Of course you could also misuse the read/unread status to mark emails that still need to be worked on, instead of flagging them or using colours or whatever. However, this is not what the read/unread status is designed for, because then it's just limited to be used as another kind of flag, not making use of the special ability of read/unread, which is to be set from read to unread state automatically after displaying a message. BTW, that's why it's called "read"/"unread" and not "done" / "still needs work" :-) ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 5.1.4.0 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
