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micz / ImapDraftUnread

This is a Thunderbird addon that lets you customize the behavior of the IMAP draft unread messages. No more new mail notifications for your drafts!!
http://micz.it/thunderdbird-addon-imap-draft-unread/
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Options are confusing . . #2

Open ghost opened 8 years ago

ghost commented 8 years ago

. . partly because of poor English. Just what does each option do, and how does each relate to the other please? One thing - well, the main thing, aside from the poor English - is that it seems that the options should be mutually exclusive, and yet they are not - although whether both can be selected seems to depend upon . . the order in which one clicks.

I am on Windows (Windows 8, 64-bit) with Thunderbird 38.5, and version 1.1 of your AddOn.

Thank you for writing and distributing this useful piece of software.

micz commented 8 years ago

The two options should be mutually exclusive. I'll check it on Windows, that manages options application differently from Linux (where it works).

Regarding what each options does, it's all about how Thunderbird handles the unread IMAP messages. On Linux and Windows a new IMAP message has two different properties:

On OS X there is no difference between these two properties for an IMAP message.

Checking the first option [ image ] Thunderbird will mark as read all the draft messages.

Checking the second option [ image ] Thunderbird will left unread the draft messages, but it will mark them "not new". This option is marked true when installing the addon for the first time.

If no option is selected, the addon does nothing. This is the problem. I'm marking this issue as a bug and I'll fix it in the next version. Thank you.

Regarding the poor english, I'm always open to any contribution (it's the power of opensource, isn't it?), so, if you want to help me improving it, contact me at m@micz.it.

ghost commented 8 years ago

I can confirm that the options are indeed mutually exclusive on Linux but not on Windows.

Thank for your the explanation of the options. However, I have a question. It's this. Does the first option ('Make read all draft messages') also - i.e., like the second option - prevent draft messages from counting as new mail (for the 'new mail' notification? I presume that the answer is 'yes' - but it seems to me that this is one of the things that could be a little clearer. If the answer is indeed 'yes', then I will send what I consider to be better text to the email address that Mic provided.

On 03/01/16 22:51, Mic wrote:

The two options should be mutually exclusive. I'll check it on Windows, that manages options application differently from Linux (where it works).

Regarding what each options does, it's all about how Thunderbird handles the unread IMAP messages. On Linux and Windows a new IMAP message has two different properties:

  • Read / Unread
  • New / Not new

On OS X there is no difference between these two properties for an IMAP message.

Checking the first option [ image https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/61795/12081247/c726ddae-b273-11e5-96f5-b886c9867408.png ] Thunderbird will mark as read all the draft messages.

Checking the second option [ image https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/61795/12081265/06e89a18-b274-11e5-90e3-df28bdf718cd.png ] Thunderbird will left unread the draft messages, but it will mark them "not new". This option is marked true when installing the addon for the first time.

If no option is selected, the addon does nothing. This is the problem. I'm marking this issue as a bug and I'll fix it in the next version. Thank you.

Regarding the poor english, I'm always open to any contribution (it's the power of opensource, isn't it?), so, if you want to help me improving it, contact me at m@micz.it mailto:m@micz.it.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/micz/ImapDraftUnread/issues/2#issuecomment-168549376.

micz commented 8 years ago

Also the first option ('Make read all draft messages') prevents draft messages from counting as new mail.

micz commented 6 years ago

English improved in https://github.com/micz/ImapDraftUnread/pull/5.