Claudio Kuenzler wrote:
Hi Tobiah, Hey list
I slightly remember that a question similar to this has already been discussed in the list. I also remember that most users were against this, and I personally agreed with that for several reasons:
a) Unwanted read message: If you hit delete when opened an e-mail and the next or previous e-mail is shown, you may have wanted to read that particular e-mail later but it will now appear as unread. You have to manually set it as unread again back in the Inbox overview.
In the upcoming version 0.4-beta (will be released later today) there are config options available for all what you're requesting here. Even with 0.3 you can choose whether to have a preview pane and we just added an option where one can specify whether messages viewed in the preview pane are automatically marked as read and after how many seconds this should happen.
b) Security/Anti-Spam: What if the next/previous e-mail is a spam e-mail or worse contains a virus? Roundcube has the possibility to block external content (like images, scripts, and so on) but it is also possible that a virus was received from a mail address being part in your address book. Depending on the setting, this e-mail will be fully shown, including external contents.
There's another option (in section "Displaying Messages") where one can set whether the next message in row should be opened when moving or deleting the current message. This option applies in both the preview pane and the full message view mode.
c) Overview: Now this one is more a personal question. Many people like it to go back to overview before opening a new e-mail. You're slower treating your mails like this, but you have more overview.
Although you see that I'm FOR keeping it the way it actually is, I agree that a switch in the configuration file would be a good idea. This switch could define the standard behavior when having opened an e-mail (either go back to Inbox/Folder view or load next mail).
I think there's no need to change any behavior of Roundcube since all these different use cases are already covered. All you need to do is choosing the right settings.
Regards, Thomas _______________________________________________ List info: http://lists.roundcube.net/users/