[imp] "Mail Preview" patch

Nate Mollring nmollring@cennecs.org
Thu Nov 14 17:27:41 2002


Quoting Jan Schneider <jan@horde.org>:

> Zitat von Nate Mollring <nmollring@cennecs.org>:
> 
> > Quoting Jan Schneider <jan@horde.org>:
> > 
> > > Zitat von Stephen Sherlock <stevesherlock@es-net.co.uk>:
> > >
> > > > This patch allows your users to elect to view a "mail preview" just
> > below
> > > > the subject in the mailbox view. It gives the option to show all mail
> > > > previews or just the unread messages, control over how many
> > characters
> > > > from
> > > > the beginning of the mail to show and whether or not to strip line
> > feeds.
> > >
> > > Cleaned up and committed. This preference is only enabled if the admin
> > > explicitely allowed it.
> > Is the expected behavior such that the preview is only shown once.  On my
> > install, if the refresh button is clicked, the user logs in a out, or
> > switches
> > from another application(such as addressbook) to IMP--the previously
> > "preview"
> > messages are marked as seen and not previewed again.
> > Nate
> 
> This is the expected behaviour if you set in your option to only show
> previews for unread messages. To create the preview we have to read the
> message so that the imap server marks it as read. The next time you visit
> this mailbox or after a reload all previewed message are marked as being
> read. At least that's my understanding of what's happening.
> 
>Jan.
That makes sense, just not real handy if you have a refresh before you get to 
see them.  
thanks,
Nate


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