Tickets :: Comment on [#12570] Unseen message marked seen when returning to folder

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Comment	>> I agree that the least surprising behavior is a good guiding >> principal. That's exactly why I suggested this change. What might be >> a user's most probable intention when marking a message as unseen? >> Having it unseen. Having to unselect the message or doing some other >> actions to keep this explicit decision, just because the client has >> some side-effects while implementing the mailbox-state-restore is not >> very intuitive OTOH. > > But I still disagree because it is not consistent. EVERY other time > a message is selected it remains selected when returning to the > mailbox. We can't make this a special case based on the presence of > a single flag. > > I would think the correct behavior would instead be to unselect the > message immediately when removing the seen flag. Flagging messages > MAY cause other actions to occur (e.g. flagging as deleted may move > the message to the Trash mailbox), so this is more acceptable > behavior.
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