[Users] marking messages in new window as read

[Dustin Miller]

On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 20:53:59 -0800
Jeremy Schneider <schneider at ardentperf.com> wrote:

> I have noticed that if I'm using the "message view" and I use hotkeys
> to move to next/previous messages, then those messages are marked as
> read.
> 
> However I prefer to read messages by opening them in a new window.
> When I use hotkeys to move to next/previous messages in the new
> window, they are not marked read.
> 
DM: Interesting. I hadn't noticed this before, but can confirm that I
get the same behavior (v4.3.0git44).
> 
> Is there a claws-mail option that I might have missed which controls
> this behavior? If possible, I'd like messages to be marked as read
> automatically when I read them in a new window.
> 
DM: There are settings that control these types of things at the
following location (via the menu): Configuration - Preferences -
Display - Summaries - Message list. You could check and experiment
there to see if you can get it to work the way you want, but with just
a brief glance at the available options I didn't see anything obvious
for your desired result. You could also look into Claws Mail's hidden
preferences (probably listed somewhere on the website and/or in the
source code files; and also accessible via the separate Clawsker GUI
app) to see if there's anything related to this. If that still doesn't
address your issue, then you could submit an enhancement request for
it. HTH, ---Dustin