Google| Subject | Re: The Most Advanced OS of the World... |
| From | Laszlo Lebrun |
| Date | 2013-05-03 20:02 (2013-05-03 20:02) |
| Message-ID | <km0u3p$m20$1@tota-refugium.de> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.advocacy |
| Follows | Alan Baker |
| Followups | Alan Baker (10h & 3m) > Laszlo Lebrun |
On 03.05.2013 18:39, Alan Baker wrote:
Alan BakerUsing "search", when I just want to "hide already read mails"? You call that intuitive?
Imagine that: the application gains new and better features with the passage of time. And using the Search box is quite intuitive to those who use Macs, Laszlo.
Since it is in virtually every application that can display multiple items, be they emails, files, pages, one quickly learns that the advanced searching in Mac OS X is something you should at least try.Sorting is not the focus, we are on hiding already read messages.Laszlo Lebrun
The sort on status does not sort unread, as of Version 4.2.
Alan BakerExperience tell sometimes the opposite, especially with Apple software. but also Microsoft and Canonical.
Again: software is improved with successive versions. This is unsurprising.
Sorting is not the focus, we are on hiding already read messages.Laszlo LebrunAlan Baker
On pretty much every other decent Mail software, you just select -as expected- "unread" in the view menu and it will filter the read messages right out of the original folders. Finito!
And in Mac Mail 5.3 (my version) it's also on the menu:
View:Sort By:Unread
Which is almost precisely how Thunderbird 17.0.5 does it, BTW. (View:Sort by:Read)
Sandman and the OP called them exclusively smart folders, so logically one would in the help search for "smart folders", which returns nothing since Apple call them "smart mailboxes".Laszlo LebrunAlan Baker
Finally & to add to a totally perfect confusion: from the menu, the "smart folders" are called "smart mailboxes"?
In what way is that confusion? Where are they called anything else?
Which -with permission- isn't really an appropriate designation for an own alternate representation of existing data from an external mailbox. I suppose some lawyer interacted here and Apple were not ready to pay license fees?
-- One computer and three operating systems, not the other way round. One wife and many hotels, not the other way round ! ;-)
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