Re: Stop making Thunderbird mark deleted messages as read

On 2009/12/16 2:00, Pascal Sartoretti wrote:
> 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

I am not talking about archiving.  I just want the folder to change its 
appearance to remind me that it needs to be emptied.

I applied a workaround now.  I replaced the Delete button with the File 
button.  It will move messages without changing their status - a bit 
more clumsy, but it works.