[sylpheed:35168] Re: unread icon color

[Gene Goldenfeld]

On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:02:42 -0600
Craig <freecycle01 at pisquared.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 14:44:43 -0600 Gene Goldenfeld
> <genegold at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:35:00 -0600
> > Craig <freecycle01 at pisquared.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > From my experience, if you are using a POP server, red is email
> > > that has been added to the mail box at the last time mail was
> > > checked and there was new mail (the mail box could have been
> > > checked for mail since the mail with red icons was received, but
> > > there was no new email for that mail box).
> > > 
> > > Blue mail is mail that had a red icon before the last batch of new
> > > mail was delivered to that mail box. Its icon was changed from
> > > red to blue and the latest new email got the red icon(s).
> > > 
> > > I hope that makes sense.
> > 
> > Not to my viewing and I'm not sure why (3.2.0 b6/Win32/POP).  I only
> > see bolded red for folders with new messages and bolded black for
> > folders and emails that haven't been read or have been manually
> > marked as unread.  There is a color label setting under Common Prefs
> > (Display), but that seems to be for functional labeling after
> > opening.
> 
> 
> You are talking about the folder tree on the left side. I was talking
> about the contents of a particular folder shown in the upper right
> window.
> 
> In the folder tree in 3.1.3/Linux, I see bold red if the folder or
> one of its sub-folders has a new, unread message (the message itself
> has a red icon in its folder contents window). I see bold black if
> the folder or one of its sub-folders has an old, unread (or a
> manually marked as unread) message.

My editing wasn't clear; I was talking about both. I don't see the blue
that was referred to earlier, which is what I meant by "not to my
viewing."

Gene