Re: UNREAD mail doesn't display bolder in Inbox
- From: "Charlie Tame" <charlie@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 08:25:41 -0500
No problem. Sometimes folks don't get to know all of the options with OE so
I thought it worth explaining, and since you mentioned a vision problem I
tried to cover the other options you can use to help sort things out.
Whether they are of use depends on personal preference and to some extent
how much mail there is and whether it's from regular senders or not. It also
depends on what the other users can get used to of course.
Looks like Frank already explained the fonts deal so I guess the only
remaining question is whether someone changed a setting or whether some
software changed it, in which case you might have to play around a bit more.
Charlie
"Kev" <kevOMITTHIS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Thanks Charlie. (Wow! Lots of help in such a short time.)
>
> I already tried most of what you suggested, except for randoml;y changing
> some factors that may interact in unpredictable ways to cause this. The
> column sorting helps somewhat, of course, by keeping the newest arrivals
> on
> top. However the idea about letting the Read messages go hidden (after
> their first reading) would be a problem for this family since we need to
> make
> it easy for each of us to to notice and read the latest messagess at
> DIFFERENT times before they leave the iInbox. In fact, I myself normally
> return later to answer those I had no time to respond to in the previous
> session. The tendency for multiple email replies to inherit identical
> subject lines, makes it even more difficult to know which email still
> hasn't
> yet been read, now that they all look the same fontwise as well.
>
> I already have HTML enabled (I thought it only matters for the body of the
> message anyhway). However I will try a slightly larger custom font size
> and
> see if it does anything magical. My setting for the mark-read delay time
> is
> 15 seconds. (I'll play with it.) I've never enabledI the preview pane
> to
> automatically download anything. Also, I haven't used any accessaibility
> features except one that causes a screen flash when caps lock is pressed
> (since for me, it's usually accidental.) Lately I'm using Capslock
> freeware
> in my system tray to control that even better.
>
> An "archive" folder does help avoid inbox clutter and I have always used
> one, but only for longer term storage. I don't think it helps solve the
> current problem for the reasons above. I guess I have two conflicting
> goals:
> to have all the most recent emails in one place whether we already read
> and
> responded to them or not, but also to have those we haven't seen yet
> really
> stand out so they won't remain unopened too long. The old behavior of the
> Inbox gave us exactly that.
>
> Still wondering what the heck happened. I did a seemingly smooth upgrade
> to
> OE 6 and then...
>
> "Charlie Tame" wrote:
>
>> Hi Kev, I used a bit bigger font and HTML if that helps any.
>>
>> Try going up to the VIEW menu item on the main OE window and choose the
>> option CURRENT VIEW and then slide across to "Hide Read Messages" and
>> pick this item instead of "Show All Messages".
>>
>> This way you will only see new messages which will give you less to look
>> through. Each time you leave the folder any that you have read will
>> become invisible next time round. They will still be there but you won't
>> see them until you set this option back or search for them using "Find".
>>
>> It is always best to move messages you may want to read again into a
>> folder you have created yourself. That way, if the Inbox folder gets
>> damaged as it sometimes does with OE you have those emails stored
>> somewhere else and you're much less likely to lose them. Once you have
>> created a personal folder you can drag the message across to it using the
>> mouse easily enough. The View option only applies to that folder you use
>> it on so all the saved messages in your personal folder can remain
>> visible.
>>
>> Another thing that may help if you are not already aware of it is the
>> fact that you can click on the column headers to sort things in order, so
>> if you go to the column header "Sent" and click on it the messages will
>> go into the order they were time stamped... click again and the order
>> will be reversed - it depends whether you want the latest messages at the
>> top or at the bottom.
>>
>> As to the bold / plain fonts issue Kath may be right, perhaps some
>> settings interact and stop this feature from working, do you use any
>> accessibility options for Windows in general?
>>
>> Also, on the main OE window, try tools>options and look on the "Read"
>> tab. There should be a checkbox called Mark message read after displaying
>> for ## seconds. I use 5 seconds usually but you might just make sure
>> that's set to something reasonable and doesn't have an odd value in it. I
>> guess you could try unchecking and changing values just in case that has
>> some effect.
>>
>> Assuming you have the default "Layout" all you have to do to set up a
>> user folder is right click on the "Local Folders" icon and move down to
>> "New Folder". Doesn't matter what you call it. This is a good thing to do
>> anyway because it stops the inbox getting too big and that in turn helps
>> prevent problems later.
>>
>> Hope this helps a bit,
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Kev" <kevOMITTHIS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:F6B6FD1F-AE1A-4AD6-8916-A0F485FEE036@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Mail arriving to my OE 6 inbox does not get listed in a font that is
>> > bolder
>> > or different in any way from mail that has already been read. (It does
>> > display the Unread envelope icon, however.) I know that the feature
>> > must
>> > exist in OE 6 because it is mentioned in the Help file, where it
>> > defines the
>> > "unread" icon this way:
>> > "The message has not been read. The message heading appears in bold
>> > type."
>> >
>> > And when describing the "read" icon, it explains: "The message has been
>> > read. The message heading appears in light type. "
>> >
>> > I already tried to fix this by moving messages out of the Inbox,
>> > closing OE,
>> > and then deleting Inbox.dbx. On relaunching OE, a new, surely
>> > uncorrupted
>> > Inbox was generated but still behaved the same way. I have found
>> > nothing at
>> > all in the Knowledgebase about this. My poor vision requires
>> > something
>> > other than tiny icons for me to distinguish the unread messages from
>> > those
>> > already read. Please help. Thanks
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