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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    Bug#6857: colors red and blue
From:       Stefan Taferner <taferner () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-07-28 13:50:30
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On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, dep wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Stefan Taferner wrote:
> | What is your point?
>
> the point, i think, was this:
>
> let's say you've done a mail run and have gotten 50 messages. you
> wish to respond to the sixth one, and the response includes quoting
> from a message in a folder. you open that folder, quote the message
> in your reply, send your reply, and return to your inbox. the new
> (blue) messages have all turned red. do another mail run and the new
> new messages are blue, the old new messages -- the ones that turned
> red when you went to the folder -- are still red, and the read
> messages are black. so the question becomes what is it about having
> looked in a folder that justifies changing the color of unread
> messages in the inbox?

Yes, this is the intended behaviour.

Status "new" is in other words: unseen. That is: messages that you
are not even aware of.

Once you open a folder KMail assumes that you see that it contains
new messages.

If you do not like this: change the colors so that new and unread are
the same.

--Stefan

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