[horde] Marking messages as seen on delete

[Michael J Rubinsky]

Quoting Ole Wolf <ole at naturloven.dk>:

> Quoting Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:
>>  ...and *are* they seen or just deleted? It doesn't make sense to  
>> flag a message incorrectly as seen if, in fact, the message in  
>> question has not been seen.
>
> Sure it does. For example:
>
> * I hover the mouse over the subject to see a preview and decide  
> that this email isn't interesting, so I delete it while having  
> actually read enough of it to know it can safely be deleted.

I still don't see this as a reason to mark all deleted messages as  
'seen' as a rule.  IMO, in this case the question really is this:  
Should displaying a preview of the message count as "seen"? It  
shouldn't IMO but I'm not the one to make this decision. Marking any  
and all deleted messages as 'seen', carte blanche, is not correct  
since the message(s) have not really been seen. I don't have access to  
the relevant RFC at the moment (behind a restrictive firewall) but  
IIRC for a message to be seen it has to have had the BODY retrieved  
from the server.

> * The spam filter or some other blacklist doesn't catch an email,  
> which turns up in the inbox. Judging from the sender and title  
> alone, you can often identify obvious junk.

It still doesn't mean that the message body was actually retrieved.

-- 
mike

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