Re: Stop making Thunderbird mark deleted messages as read

On 16.12.2009 08:11, Herre de Jonge wrote:
> On 15/12/2009 20:22, EE wrote:
>> Thunderbird 3 is marking deleted email messages as read whether they
>> have been read or not. I see no logical reason why that should happen,
>> and I would like to have some way to prevent that. I think the Deleted
>> (Trash) folder should indicate any unread messages that it contains, and
>> they have to be marked as unread for it to do that.
> 
> Why?
> 
> I never noticed. For me the Deleted folder is for messages I
> want to delete (and is emptied on exit). But I guess there
> are people who want to use the Deleted folder as an archive.

There is also a third way to consider it : a short term archive that you
manually or automatically purge. For instance, once in a while, I delete
all "deleted" message that are older than 3 months.

Pascal