[Users] That won't work.

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Dave Howorth wrote:
>Little Girl wrote:
>> Dave Howorth wrote:  

>> If they're all neatly tucked away in separate folders on arrival,
>> they'll be out of sight and out of mind and could become
>> forgotten.  

>I don't find that to be an issue, because claws helpfully identifies
>all folders that contain new mail by bolding its name (and colouring
>it if I haven't looked at it since the mail arrived). So I find it
>pretty much impossible to overlook new mail in whatever folder.

Yep, I see that they show up in the New, Unread, and Total columns.
They're not "in your face" the way I'm used to, though. I have Claws
Mail open to the Inbox folder on launch and I can see what's inside
that folder immediately. It will take a bit of a shift for me to
adjust to no longer having them all before me, but having to go to
them in their separate folders.

Just out of curiosity, are those of you who use this sort of method
creating just one folder for each sender and keeping all incoming
and archived mail in it or are you creating separate folders for
incoming and archived mail for each sender? I'm trying to decide
which of the two would be most efficient and/or least likely to cause
confusion or extra work.

>> >I haven't tried to now set a top-level %to template, because I'm
>> >worried what happens to already established folder-level templates
>> >if I do. Does a folder-level template override a higher-level
>> >folder or top-level template, or what? Anybody know?    
 
>> I believe the individual folders trump the higher-level folder
>> because you can put a check mark in the "Apply to subfolders" box
>> when creating a template and as long as you haven't done that, it
>> would only apply to that folder.  

>I'm not sure I understand that. You *have* to set the 'apply to
>subfolders' flag on the top-level template, otherwise it won't be
>applied by default.

Yes, but only if you want it to affect sub-folders. Otherwise, you
can just have the template affect that particular folder.

>My question is whether that trumps a specific template or vice-versa.

Ah, okay, The parent folder trumps the child folders. I just tested
it. If you have a template in each and you ticked the "Apply to
subfolders" box in the parent folder, then the child folder(s) will
use the parent folder's template instead of their own.

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.