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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Definition of new message
From:       Carsten Burghardt <cb () magic-shop ! de>
Date:       2002-10-27 13:24:39
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On Saturday 26 October 2002 23:47, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Saturday 26 October 2002 12:26, Martin Koller wrote:
> > On Monday 21 October 2002 20:00, Marc Mutz wrote:
> > > On Monday 21 October 2002 10:53, Lilla wrote:
> > > > What is the defenition of a "new" message?
> > >
> > > One that is new to the system, ie. a message (resp. it's entry in
> > > the message list) that you see the first time.
> > > It will become "unread" on leaving the folder.
> >
> > I wonder if that status is really necessary.
> > If you download e.g. a lot of new mails to a folder of a mailinglist,
> > then you can never see all new headers in the list, still those are
> > marked as "unread" after you switch to another folder.
> >
> > I would suggest, that one status "unread" is enough.
>
> Veto. I often use the new status to differentiate between new messages
> and messages which I have intentionally marked unread because I want to
> look at them at a later time.

I agree, I use the same.

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Regards,

Carsten Burghardt
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