[Bug 130773] unread messages in ignored threads are not marked as read on IMAP server

[Pavel Shved]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130773


Pavel Shved <pavel.shved at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #13 from Pavel Shved <pavel shved gmail com>  2009-08-08 23:28:16 ---
There's a slight misconception, I think.  `Ignore thread' should not affect the
number of unread messages.  Why should it?--you really _have_not_read_ them, so
they're truly unread.

The thing is that what we want KMail to grab our attention to are not
``unread'' emails, which, having been unread, we might not even want to read. 
We want KMail to track emails that we actually _want_to_read_ in the current
environment.  This is a separate concept and it (as far as I think) doesn't
have the corresponding IMAP flag of some kind.

So, these blue numbers over the tray icon and bold numbers near the folders
should not be the ``unread'' messages, but ``to-read'' messages instead.  Which
surely proves that, given messages in ignored threads are certanly not
``to-read'', messages in ignored threads should not be shown in KMail interface
in bold and blue.

Marking them read in server is a related, but still a separate thing.  And, if
there are technical obstacles to separate these concepts, they should be
overcome.  So, having seen what you have marked as duplicates, I confirm the
bug--something should really be fixed.

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