Always show folders with new e-mails (and at the top)
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Description
If you have server-side filters that automatically classify e-mails and put them in subfolders, it's extremely easy to miss new e-mails as those folders are hidden by default.
Steps to reproduce
- Get new mail in a folder that is not the Inbox, Favourites, etc. (special folders at the top)
Expected behaviour
Folders with new e-mails are always visible (no need to click on "show all folders"). Folders with new e-mails are alphabetically sorted.
Actual behaviour
Folders with new e-mails are hidden unless you click the "show all folders" button. Folders with new e-mails are mixed with folders without new e-mails and unsorted.
Mail app
Mail app version: 0.7.3
Mailserver or service: dovecot
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Research direction
Start by tracing how the Mail app renders the folder list and handles the "show all folders" control when new mail arrives in a non-special folder. Confirm the existing ordering and visibility behavior, then verify that folders with new e-mails are always visible and sorted alphabetically above folders without new mail.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100