Bug 54754 - Highlight folders with unseen messages (instead of folders with unread messages)
Summary: Highlight folders with unseen messages (instead of folders with unread messages)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: kmail2
Classification: Applications
Component: folders (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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Reported: 2003-02-17 14:44 UTC by Wilco Greven
Modified: 2012-09-02 18:08 UTC (History)
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Description Wilco Greven 2003-02-17 14:44:29 UTC
Version:            (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

I'm still missing this feature since switching from mutt to kmail. 

I don't care how much unread mail there is in a mailbox (especially when the box is set to receive mail from a high volume mailing list). What I do care about is if there are any unseen (new) mails waiting in the box. 

So an option to highlight the mailbox (in the folder tree) when there are any new mails in it would be great. There are some other options where an s/unread/unseen/ would be appropriate, e.g. "Jump to first unread message".
Comment 1 Ingo Klöcker 2003-02-17 23:00:19 UTC
Subject: Re:  New: Highlight folders with unseen messages (instead of folders with unread messages)

On Monday 17 February 2003 14:44, Wilco Greven wrote:
> I don't care how much unread mail there is in a mailbox (especially
> when the box is set to receive mail from a high volume mailing list).
> What I do care about is if there are any unseen (new) mails waiting
> in the box.

Isn't this a duplicate of another wish? I'm pretty sure it is.

> So an option to highlight the mailbox (in the folder tree) when there
> are any new mails in it would be great. There are some other options
> where an s/unread/unseen/ would be appropriate, e.g. "Jump to first
> unread message".

KMail always jumps to the first _unseen_ message if there is any. If you 
enable the option you mentioned then it also jumps to the first 
_unread_ message in case there is no new message.

Comment 2 Magnus von Koeller 2003-02-18 16:46:47 UTC
Subject: Re:  Highlight folders with unseen messages (instead of folders with unread messages)

On Monday 17 February 2003 23:00, Ingo "Kl
Comment 3 Wilco Greven 2003-02-19 02:39:52 UTC
Subject: Re:  Highlight folders with unseen messages (instead of folders with unread messages)

On Monday 17 February 2003 23:00, you wrote:
> On Monday 17 February 2003 14:44, Wilco Greven wrote:
> > I don't care how much unread mail there is in a mailbox (especially
> > when the box is set to receive mail from a high volume mailing list).
> > What I do care about is if there are any unseen (new) mails waiting
> > in the box.
>
> Isn't this a duplicate of another wish? I'm pretty sure it is.

I did search for a similar wishes, but I couldn't find any.

> > So an option to highlight the mailbox (in the folder tree) when there
> > are any new mails in it would be great. There are some other options
> > where an s/unread/unseen/ would be appropriate, e.g. "Jump to first
> > unread message".
>
> KMail always jumps to the first _unseen_ message if there is any. If you
> enable the option you mentioned then it also jumps to the first
> _unread_ message in case there is no new message.

KMail doesn't do that here. Maybe because I'm using imap.


Comment 4 Carsten Schlipf 2004-01-18 14:47:48 UTC
I also miss such a feature after switching from Mozilla Mail to Kmail.

In Mozilla the icon of a folder with new messages contains a small green arrow (Classic theme), if a mail filter moves a new message to this folder. This arrow is removed after the folder is opened.

I have a lot of folders and a lot of filters, but do not read all mails immediately (and therefore would like to keep them as unread). So it makes it very hard to see, where incoming messages went to.

Instead of a special icon, it would also be sufficient to simply have a different color for folders with new messages (e.g. red for new messages and bold for unread messages -> Bold red).
Comment 5 Christian Richter 2004-12-05 18:32:21 UTC
I think different folder-colors for new and unread mails would solve the issue. So you can configure kmail to show folders with only unread mails in - lets say - blue and folders which contain also new mails in e.g. red.
The trayicon should also modified to show the number of unread AND the number of new mails (or perhaps - configurable - one of these values).
I need this feature too and would vote fur such a solution.
Comment 6 Carsten Schlipf 2005-02-21 14:17:19 UTC
I just got another idea... How about a generic solution to see the status of some messages in a folder?

If kmail would simply append icons to the name of a folder in the folder list, it could append the icon of a new message, if there is at least one new message in the folder. The icon of an unread message, if there is at least one unread message in the folder. And even the icon of a message that is flagged for follow up, if there is at least one such message in this folder.

In this way you could also see, if there are new and unread messages in a folder.
Comment 7 Stefan Heinrichsen 2007-12-09 21:28:45 UTC
A long time ago scince the last comment in this Post. Is there any feature like this already implemented and I just can't find it?
Comment 8 Carsten Schlipf 2009-02-27 22:40:52 UTC
I just tested KMail that comes with KDE 4.2.

Wow! It looks great now. Very nice!  But still newly delivered emails is not yet highlighted in the folder list :-(

If I would use KMail the use of automated filters is still very limited, as I would frequently miss newly delivered emails, so I'll stay with thunderbird.

But please developers... in the meantime (this Bug is 6 years old) you have done so many changes that are nice, but really, how difficult is it to implement this feature request? For me this is a critical must-have feature of any Mail program (another reason why I refuse to use MS Outlook in the office and rather use Thunderbird).

Yes, it's OpenSource so I should maybe implement it on my own. But I am very busy with the rest of my live and have no time to implement that, although I wish I would have.
Comment 9 Russ Brown 2009-10-15 16:54:34 UTC
I *think* this may be a duplicate of bug 38711.
Comment 10 Björn Ruberg 2009-12-16 00:23:25 UTC
Don't think so. This is about making a difference between unread and unseen mails
Comment 11 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-08-18 08:16:34 UTC
Thank you for your feature request. Kmail1 is currently unmaintained so we are closing all wishes. Please feel free to reopen a feature request for Kmail2 if it has not already been implemented.
Thank you for your understanding.
Comment 12 Luigi Toscano 2012-08-19 01:05:19 UTC
Instead of creating a new feature request, please confirm here if the wishlist is still valid for kmail2.
Comment 13 Carsten Schlipf 2012-08-20 16:53:18 UTC
Yes, this is still valid for kmail2. In fact this is the only feature why I still do not use kmail, but resort to thunderbird - although I am missing the tight KDE integration.
Comment 14 Luigi Toscano 2012-08-20 23:09:07 UTC
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
Comment 15 Laurent Montel 2012-08-22 07:00:50 UTC
As unseen doesn't exist in KMail2 this bug will close
Comment 16 Magnus Holmgren 2012-09-02 12:54:55 UTC
(In reply to comment #15)
> As unseen doesn't exist in KMail2 this bug will close

Well, that's an unfortunate step backwards. Is it impossible to differentiate between unseen and unread messages with Akonadi?

Also, there are still separate font and colour settings for "new" and "unread" messages, but there's perhaps a bug report on that already.
Comment 17 Laurent Montel 2012-09-02 18:08:32 UTC
(In reply to comment #16)
> (In reply to comment #15)
> > As unseen doesn't exist in KMail2 this bug will close
> 
> Well, that's an unfortunate step backwards. Is it impossible to
> differentiate between unseen and unread messages with Akonadi?

Yes we can't differentiate it.

> Also, there are still separate font and colour settings for "new" and
> "unread" messages, but there's perhaps a bug report on that already.

There is not it now.