[kmail2] [Bug 342994] New: Mails shouldn't be marked as "read" when automatically loaded by Kmail

[flyos at mailoo.org]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342994

            Bug ID: 342994
           Summary: Mails shouldn't be marked as "read" when automatically
                    loaded by Kmail
           Product: kmail2
           Version: 4.14.2
          Platform: Kubuntu Packages
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: UI
          Assignee: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: flyos at mailoo.org

When the focus in Kmail is in a folder and a New E-Mail arrives, the new mail
is automatically opened by Kmail. This is a bad behaviour since the user did
not voluntary opened the e-mail and hence, there is a strong probability that
the new mail will finally go unnoticed.

I suggest that Kmail should refrain as most as possible to automatically open
new mails, or when it does, that the new mail stays "unread" untill the user
actively sees it (i.e. click on the e-mail, or on the interface with the e-mail
loaded).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on a Folder and leave Kmail be (you can even minimise the windows in
the systray)
2. After a time, say, a new e-mail in that folder is detected on the server,
and automatically loaded in the E-mail part of the UI by Kmail.
3. The e-mail has a strong probability of going unnoticed by the user if he
wasn't looking at his computer at the time and does not notice he's looking at
a new one.

Actual Results:  
Some new e-mails are unnoticed, or less problematic, the user doesn't know
he/she a new e-mail.

Expected Results:  
Kmail should not automatically load e-mails, or, doing so, should not mark them
as "read". Put otherwise, the user doesn't care that Kmail read the e-mail, but
whether he/she read the e-mail, and those are two different things.

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