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<p dir="auto">On 11 Jan 2019, at 6:42, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:</p>
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<div style="white-space:normal"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><p dir="auto">On 26 Dec 2018, at 17:32, Randall Gellens wrote:<br>
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<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#999; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px; border-left-color:#999"><p dir="auto">On 26 Dec 2018, at 6:38, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:<br>
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<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#BBB; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px; border-left-color:#BBB"><p dir="auto">On 25 Dec 2018, at 22:13, Randall Gellens wrote:<br>
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<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#BBB; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px; border-left-color:#BBB"><p dir="auto">When the displayed count for a mailbox is "Recent," what does MM count?</p>
</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p dir="auto">It counts emails having the IMAP `\Recent` flag. This is not as useful as it might seem to be.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Exactly; the IMAP \Recent flag is not much use.</p>
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<div style="white-space:normal"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#999; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px; border-left-color:#999"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#BBB; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px; border-left-color:#BBB"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#BBB; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px; border-left-color:#BBB"><p dir="auto">I would like to suggest that there be an option for the count to be "Unread messages that have arrived in the past [count] [unit]" where count and unit are settings (global or per-account or per-mailbox). For example, setting count to 7 and unit to days would count unread messages that arrived in the past week.<br>
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</blockquote><p dir="auto">I use a smart folder for recent unread messages.</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">Sure, I could do that, and I can see that being especially useful in certain cases, but to do that universally would mean twice as many mailboxes as I now have, and also mentally ignoring every actual mailbox and only paying attention to the smart mailboxes. Since MM has a count and allows changing what the count is counting, it seems reasonable to request that it count unread "recent" for reasonable values of "recent."</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">I believe I understand what you would like to do. I'm going to consider it a request for something more general, that is, being able to define custom counters (low-level I actually think this is already possible).<br>
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Maybe the most “intuitive” way would be to have a menu item in the Displayed Count allowing one to count whatever intersects with some other mailbox. For example:<br>
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Displayed Count ▸ ...<br>
Also in Mailbox ▸ ...<br>
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That would allow you to use any smart mailbox you have defined.</p>
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<p dir="auto">I would not find that of much use, since I have a fairly large number of actual IMAP mailboxes spread across various accounts and would not want to have to create smart mailboxes for every actual mailbox I have. Steven already suggested using smart mailboxes. What I would like is a way to have the mailbox counter display unread messages that have arrived within the last x time period (e.g., unread messages that arrived in the last ten days or two weeks). This would make it easy to see at a glance if a mailbox has something new in it.</p>
<p dir="auto">We've previously discussed having mailboxes stand out in some way when new mail arrives in them, such as being in bold font. I think that would be quite helpful, either as an alternative or in addition to a flexible counter.</p>
<p dir="auto">--Randall</p>
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