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From: Daniel Troeder <daniel@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:55:10
Message-Id: 4C89494C.8000808@admin-box.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant by "J. Roeleveld"
1 On 09/09/2010 08:21 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 08 September 2010 23:27:52 Daniel Troeder wrote:
3 >> On 09/08/2010 05:27 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
4 >>> On Wednesday 08 September 2010 17:14:13 Jonathan wrote:
5 >>>> On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 22:49:37 +0200
6 >>>>
7 >>>> Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote:
8 >>>>>> We go in circles here. NNTP is be default organzed in threads. You
9 >>>>>> don't open a topic that you are not interested in, even if the thread
10 >>>>>> has 500 messages. Nothing to filter.
11 >>>>>
12 >>>>> emails too. But you still get the 'new mails' indicator.
13 >>>>
14 >>>> Claws mail has a Ignore thread mark.
15 >>>> Which I'm about to use on this thread.
16 >>>
17 >>> So does KMail, but never tested what it actually does.
18 >>> Maybe I should on this one...
19 >>
20 >> That's cool - what does it do? I could imagine it does mark all msg as
21 >> read... or what? I mean it's still mail... so it needs to dl it... maybe
22 >> it does automagically only download the headers? Oh I like the idea :D
23 >
24 > I run my own IMAP at home, so mail is automatically downloaded and filtered on
25 > that server. KMAil is only the client to access that.
26 > Not sure if it would stop at the headers.
27 > A quick check showed me that all "unread" messages are not shown as "unread".
28 > Unmarking it as "ignore" does show the "unread" as unread again. So it only
29 > appears to be hiding the fact new messages appeared.
30 >
31 >> In Thunderbird I look at all the topics (mails sorted by thread), and if
32 >> not interested mark the hole folder (mails sorted into folders on
33 >> server) as "read". But the next time I check my mails there are new
34 >> "unread" mails that belong to that same thread I didn't want to read. So
35 >> I have to mark them as "read" again. A function like in Claws and
36 >> Kmail... I have to search for add-ons for Thunderbird... thanx for that
37 >> idea!
38 >
39 > Good luck/fun hunting.
40 > Let us know if a similar feature exists for Thunderbird.
41 I found something:
42 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/221519/
43 I'm testing it now... have to wait for messages - will report back
44 tomorrow :)
45
46
47
48 >> (please note: I'm talking about client-features, not
49 >> delivery/storage-systems)
50 >>
51 >> Bye,
52 >> Daniel
53 >>
54 >> (sorry for this "traffic", I hope this mail is more worth a smile on
55 >> your face than an annoyance :)
56 >>
57 >> BTW: I know n00b-unfriendly communities - and gentoo isn't one!
58 >
59 > I agree :)
60 >
61 > --
62 > Joost
63 >
64
65
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