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<p>On 16 Jan 2012, at 23:47, James Pearson wrote:</p>
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<p>I'm not clear on how "Mute" is suppose to work?</p>
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<p>I'm glad you ask since it's not really documented. I'll put something similar to the following description in the manual. Since I'm not currently using the feature myself then I may have forgotten some of the details (it may even be buggy):</p>
<p>It is a mailing list oriented feature. When a message is muted it affects all replies for the message arriving in the future. Two actions are taken:</p>
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<li>Replies to muted messages are automatically muted themselves and marked as read.</li>
<li>If the muted parent is in a different mailbox (for example, because it has been archived or deleted) then the replies are moved to the same mailbox.</li>
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<p>The result of this is that a muted message triggers future messages received in the same thread to be handled automatically. The purpose is to more easily follow a high traffic list by letting you decide that you no longer want to see messages in a given thread.</p>
<p>There is an exception though. If a message in the subthread is addressed directly to one of your known identities then the muting is automatically disabled. I can see in the code that I do not stop the muting if the subject changes. I should probably do that as well.</p>
<p>The feature is implemented by setting an IMAP keyword named <code>$Muted</code> on muted messages. When a new message arrives, MailMate looks for this keyword in the parent message.</p>
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<p>Benny</p>
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