Marking As Read and Showing in View All At Once

On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:44:18 +1300, Paul Bartlett <bartlett@panix.com>  
wrote:

> Opera 9.25 under Windows 98.  If this is a FAQ or has been answered
> before, please direct me accordingly.  Thanks.
>
> I receive a piece of new mail in the Received folder.  I want to keep
> it.  First I mark it as Read.  At that point it disappears (naturally)
> from the Unread view.  I do not always keep the Mail panel up (I want a
> alrger viewing area), so I have to bring it up (Fn4), open Received,
> right click on the particular message, and Show in the view I want.  Is
> there a way to simplify this, so that I do not have to push so many
> buttons and make so many mouse clicks?  Is there some way of marking a
> message as read and showing it in a view in one operation?  I am
> thinking of something like Pine: as soon as an email (or newsgroup
> post) is opened it is automatically considered Read, and a Save moves
> it directly into the folder desired.  Sweet and simple.
>
The first thing that comes to mind is that you should simply reverse the  
order: Put it into the desired view *first*. Depending on the view  
settings (mark as filtered) that may also automatically remove it from the  
unread view. If it doesn't you can then mark it as read.
When creating a filter to automatically assign new mails to a view, you of  
course have the option to mark as read immediately (which may not make  
much sense to you as you haven't read it) - I haven't used it yet, but it  
seems attractive for the folders for one or two newsletters which I never  
read but which might be useful someday.

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