[horde] Marking messages as seen on delete

Ole Wolf ole at naturloven.dk
Mon Oct 24 20:49:09 UTC 2011


Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
> I would contend that any e-mail program that marks deleted messages  
> as seen by default is broken.

I agree: it should not be the default behavior.

>   I think a valid discussion is whether to count deleted, unseen  
> messages in a mailbox as "unread" for purposes of the UI (this is  
> independent of RFCs, since a newmail count in a MUA is a  
> UI-decision, not something defined by the RFCs).

Indeed; it's not an RFC matter, but a UI decision.

>   I would not be opposed to adding an advanced pref for "mark  
> deleted messages as seen".&nbsp; This could be seen as nothing more  
> than a UI-specific macro for message deletion.&nbsp; And it  
> indicates, like the mark message as seen example, that the user has  
> explicitly indicated their desire to considered these messages  
> viewed.&nbsp; obviously, the default setting MUST be off for this  
> preference.

That's exactly what I'm requesting. I'm (obviously) all for this approach. :)

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