[SM-DEVEL] Re: 'Read Mail' Folder aka aolmail (!)

[Daniel W. <d...@ni...>]

>>
>>It doesn't solve the user confusion of why, until you log out and back
>>in again, some read messages stay in the INBOX.  This might be especially
>>confusing for ppl who leave SM logged in for days at a time. You might
>>first try to see if there is a way to do it somewhere beside at login.

Yes, someone suggested upon logout but i find that upwards of 2/3rd of 
my users just close the page instead of hitting sign out.

> Left pane refresh.

I'm not so sure that it would be less confusing to move mails whilst 
within a webmail session. For instance:

A user opens a new email, then clicks next. Whilst reading the next 
email the auto-refresh folder list runs and moves the first email to 
"Read Mail". The user realises he needs to look something up from the 
first email and clicks Previous. He sees an error message like "Message 
deleted or moved" and thinks the system has lost his important email.

That, I think, will cause more consternation than if the Inbox>Read Mail 
move was done at login, giving a consistant and stable view of your emails.

People who leave SM logged in for days will simply see their emails 
remaining in the Inbox. I don't think that's particuarly going to 
concern them.

It is true that AOLMail moves the messages as soon as they are read. I 
actually don't think that's particularly user-friendly for the reasons 
stated above.

Of course, at the end of the day, it is trivial to let the admin/user 
decide the behaviour by changing the location of the hook via config.php 
  or via userprefs.

>>>I'll have my clever php developer give this plugin a shot but do keep
>>>sharing ideas. One thing that could be useful is how to make the plugin
>>>automatically create and register a special folder.
>>
>>There is already a special folders plugin you can steal code from.

Excellent - thanks.