Re: wish: clear the * without opening folder

In message <a925440c55.jim@...>
       Jim Nagel <mpro@...> wrote:

> I finish reading a long message and then move it to a different 
> folder, which contains nothing else new.  That folder's name now is 
> marked with *[xyz] meaning it has received a new message since I last 
> opened the folder.  Yes yes yes: it's the message I moved to there 
> just now.
> 
> The only way to clear the star is to open the folder, which takes 
> quite a while because it's a big folder.  Tiresome.
> 
> Feature request:  a keystroke to clear the flag without bothering to 
> open the folder.
> 
> If any seconders, I'll copy to R-Comp.

There already is a way of doing that:

Select the folder, then use Menu->Group <groupname>->Catch Up

What's wrong with selecting the folder, and then using Menu -> Group ->
Catch Up? (Or select it, then Shift-C).

> Similar wish:  When sending a new message, the "File in" location 
> should not gain a star flag just because my file copy of my own 
> message has landed there.  It's not really a new message; I obviously 
> read it already.
>    (Details:  In the "Edit email" dialogue, the default location for 
> "File in" is normally the "Sent mail" or "Sent news" folder.  But for 
> some correspondents, it's handy to store my incoming and outgoing 
> messages in the same folder so I can use threading.  This is the 
> situation where I could do without the dysfunctional star flag.) 


-- 
Nick Roberts           tigger @ orpheusinternet.co.uk           

Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which
can be adequately explained by stupidity.

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