On Aug 31, 2012 7:32 AM, "Jan Schneider" <j...@horde.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > is this only me, or this new feature that remembers the selection state of a mailbox rather irritating than helpful? I may be completely off, that's why I'm asking here, where potentially more end user feedback is expected than on the development list. > > I don't recall such behavior from any other application that I use. Granted, I don't use many desktop applications anymore, but still. > > If I go to another mailbox, I'm done with the current mailbox, and vice versa, so I rather expect the first mailbox in a clean state when I return from the second mailbox. This expectation might be different if we had mailboxes opened in tabs, which we don't. > > Though this could be considered a bug that needs fixing, I find it especially annoying in a common use case of mine: when I start reading through my daily mail, going through all the folders that my mail is sorted into, I sometimes open a mail that's too long to be read right now. Then I reset the seen flag before I go to another folder. If I go back, that message is now still selected, marking it as seen again. > > Again, this could be just my personal preference, and others might welcome this new feature, so I'm looking for some feedback.
I couldn't agree more. Gmail does this sometimes, and it's as annoying as hell. Frankly I'd prefer the Outlook behaviour - - the option to never automatically mark messages as seen - when you return, the message is selected (and if you have a preview pane, in the the pane). Simon -- imp mailing list Frequently Asked Questions: http://wiki.horde.org/FAQ To unsubscribe, mail: imp-unsubscr...@lists.horde.org
