On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Claus Atzenbeck wrote:
:) On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Eduardo Chappa wrote:
:)
:) > Here is an idea. Use a filter to do this, and you will not have to
:) > press any keys. This is the idea: make the filter act when the folder
:) > is being opened, rather than when the folder is being closed. The
:) > point is that you probably care more that the message is tagged as
:) > read rather than when it is tagged unread.
:)
:) I tested that. Thanks for pointing that out. The disadvantage, however,
:) is that Alpine seems to change the flag to unread on message delivery.
That should not be the case. The filter has a "Message is recent" set to
no, so only messages that are not recent should match this. Are you doing
this over IMAP or on a local mailbox? (that could make a difference)
:) That means that the unread message count at the folder index does not
:) count new messages.
That seems right. Unread and Recent are two different concepts. If you
want to know about new messages, you should be asking the recent count,
not the unread count.
:) Also, the tab (jumping to the next folder with unread messages) does
:) not consider the folder, since all messages are set unread.
That is very interesting.
:) I have a workaround, which is not perfect either: I use the terminal
:) application to send the ;aa*!n string when a certain key combination is
:) pressed. It works, but actually it should be handled by Alpine.
That seems like a work around that should work. I would tell you about one
of my patches that actually does what you want, but I thought that your
problem could be handled by filters so there would be no need to patch
pine/alpine. Nevertheless, there is a patch that does what you want.
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Eduardo
http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/pine/