ann sanfedele wrote: > TIA if you can tell me how to use the search mechanism to find the > unread message in my 3000 plus message inbox... > Well, I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird rather than Netscape Communicator, but since these essentially different variants of the same product I'll give it a go... > can an unread message be hidden? > Not as far as I know.
However, I've often looked for the new message in a similar manner to what you described above, and found that it was "hidden" because I was using the threaded view, and the new message was grouped with something else that wasn't really related just because it happened to have the same subject. Or, rather, in most cases both messages had no subject at all. > whenever I get on to read my mail the inbox is sorted by date and I > delete all suspicious email immediately and > open everything else... > > usually, after I do this , the number of unread message thingy in parens > disappears... > today it has not... I see no way to search by unread messages and I > scrolled through the whole list > In Thunderbird I'm able to do this if I select Edit/Find/Search Messages... In the little box that pops up then, there is an "option menu"/ "combo box" on the top where I can select which of my mailboxes to search in. Most of the time, Inbox will be selected already. A bit below that, there is row that contains 2 more buttons with menus and a text field or another menu depending on the setting for the other two, and initially looks like [ Subject ] [ Contains ] [_________] By clicking on the buttons and making selections from the related menus, I can change that to [ Status ] [ is ] [ New ] or alternatively [ Status ] [isn't] [ Read ] and that's about it, really. I hope this makes some sense to you ;-) - Toralf -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
