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Posted Jun 30, 2004 14:11 UTC (Wed) by nick.leroy (guest, #109)
In reply to: kmail by captrb
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to graphical mail clients

> 2. Threading: Where my coworkers spend their time writhing through their
> inboxes to connect replies that make up a long discussion, kmail
> presents a perfect tree of email in newsgroup style. While this saves me
> a great deal of time, it can also be a inconvenient when someone
> responds to a very old message, as there is no quick way to say "show me
> the new messages, regardless of the parent message's date".

I also use kmail, but I have a keyboard shortcut (in my case "ctrl-t") to
turn on threaded / non-threaded views. Thus, when I see that there are
"old" messages that haven't flowed to the bottom, I hit c-t, select the
message, then c-t again to see it in it's threaded context. Works great
for me.

-Nick

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kmail

Posted Jun 30, 2004 18:32 UTC (Wed) by captrb (subscriber, #2291) [Link]

That is a good technique, I didn't know that action was shortcut-able. I
will configure it now.

I don't see a way to sort by status, however. Emails, usually spam, that
arrival with odd dates (between the earliest and latest in the folder)
will still be difficult to find.

Finding unread mail in kmail

Posted Jul 1, 2004 13:40 UTC (Thu) by abredon (guest, #2038) [Link]

To find buried unread messages, I use the + and - keys (navigate to next/previous unread message). I use these keys a lot whenever I need to check a lot of messages at once.

Finding unread mail in kmail

Posted Jul 1, 2004 19:16 UTC (Thu) by captrb (subscriber, #2291) [Link]

That is exactly what I need. I'm even embarrassed I never saw it before.

I guess when I get used to an application over several years of use, I
don't spend enough time digging around in new versions for new features.

Much appreciated.