[Bug 92906] Automatically mark message read when replying
Bernd Oliver Sünderhauf
pancho.mz at riseup.net
Mon Nov 26 21:03:27 GMT 2012
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92906
--- Comment #12 from Bernd Oliver Sünderhauf <pancho.mz at riseup.net> ---
@Laurent:
Sorry for being a bit verbose:
In most cases it will be marked read, even if "Mark selected message as read
after" is set to a value >0 sec. This for the simple reason that writing the
reply will take long enough, while the original message marked in the
messagelist, so the threshold will be easily reached.
However, it won't be necessarily marked read at least in the following case:
- if the users hits "reply" but temporarily switches back to the messagelist
(in order to open replies for more messages)
And generally it won't be marked read at least in the following cases:
- if "Mark selected message as read after" is completely switched off
- if the Message preview pane is disabled
Now, when replying to a mail, it can be assumed that the original mail has
sufficiently been literally read, if it is quoted. And in most every case the
original mail will be quoted, except the user for some reason removes %QUOTE
from the template. But even then, an answer by definition references the
original information. So we can safely assume that the user considers an
answered mail as read.
But to adapt to different preferences and stay on the secure side, we should
make this configurable, yet enabled on default.
Inline forwarding is a similar case, but this is often done quasi-automatic.
Also forwarding information doesn't necessarily imply that the content has been
acknowledged. So this one should be configurable as well, yet disabled on
default.
See also the feature requests regarding ignored threads (Bug #212897) and
deleted messages (Bugs #196876, #117717).
Taken together, the configuration would make up a nice little sub-section
within "Appearance -> Message List" because that is the single common starting
point where a marked message gets replied, deleted, forwarded etc. without
being opened in a message window.
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