On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 13:12 -0400, Eric Preston wrote: > > Secondly, I think nowadays it's far from unusual for people to read mail > > from more than one location (at least home and office, probably more if > > they travel a lot). It's just a fact of life. > > That's probably true, but that's not what we're talking about. You read > from multiple locations then you're hopefully doing it with IMAP over > ipsec or something. I'm talking about the simple case of reading local > mail (local Evo mailboxes grabbed from POP) and expecting the position > of selected messages in index views to remain the same across folder > changes and returns as well as quitting and restarting the application. > > Open question: Why is this not doable?
I only use IMAP but one would certainly expect this to work in the scenario you describe. If it doesn't it's broken. > > Or you could use a vFolder and avoid duplicating messages. > > No I can't. Because when I get new mail bettween reads the scroll > position will be screwed up just as with regular folders... therefore I > resort to deleting duplicate messages in another folder for the purpose > so that the latest (but oldest) mail on the list is top of the window > with no need to scroll to find it. I'm not sure what "latest (but oldest)" means. Maybe you could define the vFolder based on message status (e.g. status is-not Read). poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
