Re: rmail-message-filter

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Glenn Morris <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:23:51 -0500
> 
> 
> rmail-message-filter is an option in rmail.el. Post-mbox, it does nothing.
> Previously, it was called:
> 
>  i) the very first time a message was shown.
> ii) when toggling the headers to the normal state, every time.
> 
> It's not clear what it should do now, since there is nothing that
> records when a message is shown for the first time (unseen is not
> necessarily the same thing).

How is unseen different from the first time? weren't they synonyms in
pre-mbox Rmail?

> Should it do something (every time a message is shown? when the unseen
> attribute is removed? when new mail is gotten), or be removed?

I'd say call it when the unseen attribute is removed.