From: "Andrea G. Monaco" <andrea.monaco@autistici.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unseen attribute doesn't get saved in rmail
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 13:28:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pn2bmzdd.fsf@autistici.org> (raw)
> I'm asking why is it important for your purposes to know whether the
> mail was read for the first time or not. Because if it isn't very
> important, the solution I proposed should work for you.
My mailboxes get pretty big, some gigabytes usually, so saving the
buffer takes some seconds. I only want to save it if it got modified, for
example because I read some messages for the first time and thus changed
their unseen flag.
> That's the reason Rmail doesn't already have the feature you
> want: I guess no one else uses it as you do
Some features are more or less used than others. But saying that some
use case is completely nonexistent is pretty strong: can you
substantiate this claim? Unless you are arguing that a feature being
absent means that no one wants it: I would obviously disagree with that
claim.
There's at least one person (probably more) who is unhappy with that
behavior of rmail, and that's me.
Cheers,
Andrea Monaco
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2021-01-11 12:28 Andrea G. Monaco [this message]
2021-01-11 15:34 ` Unseen attribute doesn't get saved in rmail Eli Zaretskii
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2021-01-08 21:33 Andrea G. Monaco
2021-01-09 7:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-02 20:05 Andrea G. Monaco
2021-01-02 20:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-31 14:03 Andrea G. Monaco
2020-12-31 16:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
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