On 9 Nov 2013, at 3:10, Rob McBroom wrote:
First, is there any way to automatically mark messages as read when
deleting them (and ideally when moving to Junk)? An unread count for
things in the trash is distracting and annoying to me. (I know the
count can be disabled in MailMate, but I use other clients.) The time
required to hit ⇧⌘U over and over really adds up (especially when
it includes switching from the mouse to the keyboard).
First, hold down ⌥ when clicking “Check Now” in the Software
Update preferences pane to get r3832 of MailMate. Then go to the General
preferences pane and enable *experimental* 2.0 features. Finally, double
click the “Deleted Messages” mailbox and add a rule with no
conditions, but simply an action to enable “Seen”. I think that
should work (and you can do the same for Junk).
I'll consider adding such rules (maybe in a disabled state) to make it
easier for users to enable this behavior.
Semi-related to that, I typically view messages in a separate window.
When I delete the message, the window closes, but if I move it to
Junk, it stays open. I have the “Close window after move”
preference enabled.
That option is related to ⌥⌘T.
Can I get the window to close when moving to junk somehow?
No, not any way I can think of. You can define a [custom key
binding](http://manual.mailmate-app.com/custom_key_bindings) which moves
to junk and closes the window, but that won't work for the default
toolbar button. The custom key binding could be something like:
"j" = ( "moveToJunk:", "performClose:");
I guess this problem also applies to the “Archive” button. And I
also think it is a problem that MailMate does not select the next
message in the mailbox view.
Finally, does anyone have any tips for dealing with threads? It seems
cumbersome to read them (without the keyboard), but maybe I’m
missing something. One change that would really help is if collapsed
threads behaved more consistently. If you delete, move, or mark as
read with a collapsed thread selected, it affects all the messages.
But double clicking a collapsed thread or selecting it with the
preview pane enabled doesn’t *show* all the messages.
This would essentially be a so-called conversation view which currently
does not exist in MailMate (MailMate can display multiple messages in a
message view, but that is rather primitive). It's non-trivial to
implement this, but it is one of a few items high on my list (as usual,
no promises or time frame).
It only shows the first message. I find myself clicking a lot of
triangles. (I know about ⌥-click and ⌃⌘A, but that means
reaching for the keyboard.)
When reading/deleting/archiving messages I strongly recommend using the
keyboard only, but I do get your point. (Note that ⌥ also works with
right-arrow to expand a thread.)
Thanks for trying out MailMate.
--
Benny
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