411622 - Add auto-mark-as-read as folder option

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Chris Pepper]

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Some folders (particularly Junk, Trash, and Sent) should never show unread messages needing attention.

Please add a per-folder option to mark all messages as read.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Look at the folders list, for Trash, Sent, & Junk.
Actual Results:  
They often show blue with new messages.

Expected Results:  
They should never demand attention, or trigger any 'new mail' indicators. Although some people may not want this behavior, so it should be optional.
It should also be configurable for other folders, such as local spam folder names or other folders that receive low-priority mail, which should perhaps be downloaded automatically.

Comment 1

[Steve Simms]

This needn't be implemented by marking all the messages in the folder as read (which could be time-consuming for large folders).

It sounds like just not having the folders get highlighted would meet your needs, and probably be easier to implement.

Comment 2

[Chris Pepper]

Yes, having a per-folder option to suppress the new-message bolding/coloring and counts in the folder view would be excellent.

Comment 3

[Matt]

As Thunderbird does not automatically fetch junk mail on IMAP accounts and IMAP is used by the majority. Is this enhancement really still required?

Comment 4

[Matthias Buecher]

A different perspective on the topic as I prefer to see unread mails in junk and trash:

• On junk it informs me to check for false-positives, if any then move them and finally mark folder as read.
• On trash it's a sign that I may accidentially deleted an unread mail.

Due to different preferred workflows of users this feature request could be still seen as required.
Additionally it provides more flexibility to automatically mark mails as read in folders where you move/filter some noisy mailing lists to and only search for topics if interested.