Bug 76696

Summary: Tray icon is confused by auto-opening of new mail
Product: [Unmaintained] kmail Reporter: Dave M <dave>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 1.6   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Dave M 2004-03-03 22:48:04 UTC 
Version:           1.6 (using KDE KDE 3.2.0)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:          Linux

I have KMail set to only display the tray icon if new unread mail comes in (although a problem exists with either of the tray icon settings).  My Inbox is normally kept empty when I am at the PC, as I read mail and move things to different folders, even if I haven't read it yet.  So, with an empty inbox, new mail comes in...  If one message comes in, KMail automatically opens it/marks it read, but it leaves the tray icon there with no little number indicator.  If more than one message comes in, then the number is count is simply 1 off, since it auto-reads one message.  I think the best solution, in my opinion, would be an option to have KMail NOT automatically open the first newly received email.

Thanks,

Dave
Comment 1 Dave M 2004-05-11 06:36:49 UTC 
Just for the sake of updating (and because I don't know what the actual resolution status on this is), this bug still exists in KDE 3.2.2, running on SuSE Linux 9.1 Pro.

Thanks,

Dave
Comment 2 Dave M 2004-07-23 21:09:10 UTC 
Is this resolved in the upcoming 3.3 release of KDEPIM?

Thanks.
Comment 3 Tom Albers 2004-07-23 21:31:10 UTC 
No it is not. A workaround is to disable the function 'mark automaticly as read after... seconds' and use a shortcut to mark it as read, but this had disadvantages, I know.

Can you think of a good way to resolve this? If you have the preview pane open, the mail is auomaticly viewed -> read -> counter is lowered. If we do not lower it, how will the counter ever return to 0, the read message should be clicked again?
Comment 4 Dave M 2004-07-23 21:34:19 UTC 
The way other mail clients (such as Evolution or Outlook/Outlook Express) handle this is that even if the preview pane is in use, a message retrieval does not automatically open it.  You have to click/highlight/select the message for it to display in the preview pane.

Thanks.
Comment 5 Dave M 2005-03-01 04:59:08 UTC 
This issue has since changed (not bee corrected) since my initial report.  As it stands now, KMail still opens a new email if your in the folder and it is empty, but it now removes the tray icon properly.  Ideally, though, KMail shouldn't be auto-opening that new email.

Thanks,

Dave M
Comment 6 Jonathan Marten 2006-11-23 18:42:58 UTC 

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