[imp] Refresh of 'Virtual Inbox'

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Arjen de Korte <arjen+horde at de-korte.org>:

> When in a mail folder, the contents are refreshed automatically, so  
> new mails will be shown without user intervention. When in the  
> Virtual Inbox, the contents are only refreshed when the refresh  
> button near the right edge is pressed. Is it possible to refresh it  
> automatically, like ordinary mail folders?

No.

> It is quite confusing that the refresh button that refreshes the  
> message list in all other folders, doesn't work in the Virtual Inbox.

Just the opposite.  If the Virtual Folder (or any other folder) starts  
randomly refreshing, users start seeing messages they are reading  
disappear (since they are no longer "unseen" so they don't exist in  
the refresh).  And people do things like work with multiple e-mails at  
the same time (i.e. a thread), so they may still want to refer back to  
a message they just opened.  There was all sorts of negative feedback  
to this behavior until it was changed several years again.  Quite  
honestly, you are the first person to ever feel the other way -- at  
least that I can recall.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]