Created attachment 62611 [details] Example. Version: unspecified (using KDE 4.7.0) OS: Linux Very often, when I receive spam messages I don't want to read it but just mark it and delete. Especially it is important because spammers want to save their resources and send spam only for those people who reading it. For example, their could insert an image tag into the message with query string like http://w...?email=my_email and check when I read it. So, for my opinion this is very important thing to have a possibility to select emails without loading its content and a checkbox button does exactly what I need. Best regards. Reproducible: Always Expected Results: It should be an checkbox button or something else, that gives a possibility to select emails without loading its content.
In the security menu iirc, you can choose to automatically load external links or not. But your comment is still valid, being able to select many mails without having to show their content would be a great feature (specially with the recent kmail2 slowdown).
Perhaps using the same kind of selection system than in Dolphin would be more coherent in the KDE suite ; hovering your mouse of the email icon would allow the user to select/unselect the mail instead of displaying it.
+1. Both the request and the approach in comment #2 are very reasonable. I'd love to see this feature in the near future, with KDE/Dolphin style being lots better than the original checkbox idea. Even better if we could check for further integration with Dolphins UI. But as a first step, I can imagine an optional checkbox column for the message list, which can later stay as an alternative approach.
Also, since it's still about selection emails without showing its content/affecting its state, when you select a mail, then shift + click another, the second mail content is shown and is marked as read, which is not logical if you consider that the user is currently moving around mails (and do not want to read them while doing so).