Re: Deleting multiple mails

Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Thursday 08 October 2009, O. Sinclair wrote:
>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>> On Thursday 08 October 2009 12:32:13 O. Sinclair wrote:
>>>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>>> On Thursday 08 October 2009 11:31:42 David Jarvie wrote:
>>>>>> I often see this behaviour - it has been a feature for me since
>>>>>> KDE 4.2 if not earlier. My KDE is compiled from source.
>>>>> Strange.  I've used KMail with every version since 4.0 and never
>>>>> seen it.
>>>>>
>>>>> With problems like this, where some people see it and others
>>>>> don't, it would be really nice to find some common ground for the
>>>>> 'problem' boxes that doesn't occur in the 'just works' boxes, but
>>>>> it can be quite hard to do.
>>>> It seems to happen when I have set the "filter by status" to
>>>> "unread emails"
>>> I would imagine that that means, in practice, that you are
>>> selecting a range with holes in it.  I don't even know whether
>>> that's remotely possible.  Maybe Ingo can give us some feedback on
>>> that.
> 
> This has definitely been possible without problem in KDE 3. Since David 
> wrote that it started with KDE 4.2 it's probably related to the new 
> message list.
The problem is not related to "holes in the list" when you use "new 
mail" filter. It is simply a bit erratic what gets chosen when you mark 
one mail and then point to another and use Shift+click to select a range.