Bug 130475

Summary: Mark selected messages as read after ... shouldn't work when kmail doesn't have focus
Product: [Unmaintained] kmail Reporter: Patrick <mail>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: mail
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
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Description Patrick 2006-07-08 21:22:21 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.3)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
OS:                Linux

... because as it is now, the tray notification's counter will be reset after the specified mark-as-read-timeout. If it's set to 0 and the inbox is empty on message arrival, the notification counter will never even count up, because the message gets selected directly on arrival. So the notification doesn't work.

All this only applies when the message preview pane is switched on.

I propose to check if kmail has the focus at the time when the message usually should get marked as read, and if not, don't mark it as read. Nobody wants to get messages marked as read, when he/she is not even using (aka not giving the focus to) his/her mail program.

Cheers, Patrick.
Comment 1 Patrick 2006-10-28 15:12:52 UTC 
This bug is still there as of today (KMail 1.9.5, KDE 3.5.5). Confirmed by various people during the bug triage on 2006-10-28.

For people who keep many messages in their Inbox, this won't be a problem. But I'm used to move all read messages into an archive folder - so my Inbox is usually empty. I get hit by that bug all the time ;)
Comment 2 Bram Schoenmakers 2006-10-28 15:48:54 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 125743 ***