Re: Unseen attribute doesn't get saved in rmail

[Andrea G. Monaco]

  > I'm asking why is it important for your purposes to know whether the
  > mail was read for the first time or not.  Because if it isn't very
  > important, the solution I proposed should work for you.

My mailboxes get pretty big, some gigabytes usually, so saving the
buffer takes some seconds. I only want to save it if it got modified, for
example because I read some messages for the first time and thus changed
their unseen flag.


  > That's the reason Rmail doesn't already have the feature you
  > want: I guess no one else uses it as you do

Some features are more or less used than others. But saying that some
use case is completely nonexistent is pretty strong: can you
substantiate this claim?  Unless you are arguing that a feature being
absent means that no one wants it: I would obviously disagree with that
claim.

There's at least one person (probably more) who is unhappy with that
behavior of rmail, and that's me.


Cheers,
Andrea Monaco