Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: evolution

Evolution has a proud new feature:
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.20/notes/en/index.html#rnusers advertises
the "Magic Space Bar", which moves the user to the next unread e-mail,
possibly in a new folder. The whole feature is making my e-mail
processing much more awkward than it should be.

I keep all my unprocessed e-mail in one inbox. When I'm done with it, I
delete it. Before anything lands in my inbox, it gets automatically
copied to an archive folder.

What used to happen: When I process e-mail, I read it each message,
pressing space to get the next windowful of text. I realize I'm at the
end of a message when the text no longer pages forward. Then I pause and
decide what to do: reply, forward, or put next actions on my to do list
(if that sounds like GTD to you, you're right). When I've done whatever
I'm going to do, if anything, I delete the e-mail (which I can safely
do, since there is an automatic archive copy).

What happens now: I have to be very careful not to press space when I'm
at the end of the message. Otherwise Evolution changes messages, and
possibly folders from the inbox to the archive folder (which takes up to
several seconds). The constant vigilance requires me to move my eyes
sideways between the text and the scrollbar, which is physically tiring
and probably bad, healthwise.

I think it should be possible for the user to disable the magic space
bar. If there is a setting for it, I haven't found it, sorry.

** Affects: evolution (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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evolution should allow me to configure it to not switch emails/folders when 
space is pressed at the end of a message
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/150963
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