[sylpheed:35191] Re: Please make an option to don't mark messages as read when clicked on it

[Michael A. Puls II]

On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 16:09:59 -0400, Zack Zack <zack24 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Message can be marked as read ONLY in the case if it was really READ.
> And there is NO possibility to recognise it automatically. Why should
> we pretend we can do
> what we can't?

I agree.

The way Opera's built-in mail client handles things is like this:

* When a new message comes in, it's unread and unseen. The message text in  
the list is blue.

* When you view a message, the message becomes seen, but is still unread.  
The message text in the list changes to a bolded black.

Yes, if you have "list and message below" or "list and message on right"  
set as the layout (as opposed to "list only" where you double-left-click  
to open the message in a new tab), when you select an item in the message  
list, the message for that item opens in the pane and the message becomes  
seen.

* Since there's no way for Opera to tell if you've actually read the  
message or not, the message only becomes read (normal black text in list)  
when you explicitly mark the message as read. And, you should only mark  
the message as read when you've actually read it.

For IMAP, the "\Seen" flag is only removed from the message when you  
explicitly mark it as read. It's still there when the message is seen but  
unread.

This works absolutely wonderfully in Opera.

Now, even though that's totally awesome, Opera has a "mark as read"  
option. As you can guess from the above, by default, it's set to  
"manually". But, you can set it to "after n seconds" where n is 1, 2, 3, 5  
or 10. When you do this, even if you use "list and message below" or "list  
and message on right", because it's never instant (0 seconds), you can go  
through the message list (if you're fast enough) with the arrow keys  
without marking every single message (that you select) as read.

-- 
Michael