Re: deliver mail marked as read

Hi.

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 2:37 AM, Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Is it cleanly possible with maildrop?
> No.

Would it be difficult to implement? I haven't looked at the code, but
it seems rather being just a different name used at delivery?! And
given that there seem to be some demand for it...


> For starters, not everything here is under the server's control. Even if a
> new message is inserted as non-new message, a mail client when it sees a
> previously unknown message may still flag it as unread.

Well obviously, but then the client is in error,... and it seems that
at least the major clients handle this correctly.


> Furthermore, if you don't want to see a particular message, the right
> approach is to deliver it to a different folder, other than INBOX. Problem
> solved.

I don't think that this solves the problem.
a) Most clients will then mark this folder as having unread mail and
some of the major grahical MUAs even mark the folder hierarchy above
somehow special, to denote that subfolders have unread mail.
This is particularly annoying as one as to look through the hierarchy
if anything interesting has arrived or not.

b) It means that one would have to use different folders for the same
"type" of mails. Imaing I get some automated log emails from some
server that should go to some folder like logs.someDomain.someHost.
No I want to mark mails containing failed/error/warning as unread and
all others as read.
When I use a special folder for this, I'd have to separate it, e.g.:
logs.someDomain.someHost.read
logs.someDomain.someHost.unread
Imagine now, that there are many hosts/domains in a big cluster, and I
have some client which collapses the folder hierarchy, you can easily
see that this doesn't help a lot, as one would still have to look
through the whole hierarchy.


Cheers,
Philippe

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