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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Nov 28, 2018 at 11:25 AM

Hi Ken,

I am using Gmail (the professional G Suite actually) with the Dark theme. I just checked and I do see a cursor, though it may not be as evident as in Outlook. It is a vertical blue line at the left of the last read message.

I checked another account with the default white theme and did not see such a cursor. Curious.

The cursor marks the last read message. If I delete the message, it then marks the one which was just above the one deleted.

Ken wrote:
>In Gmail, if
>you delete a message, there is no cursor to show you where you are in
>the Inbox list. So, if you were in the middle somewhere, GMail will not
>show you where you were prior to deleting a message. I am hoping this
>makes sense (and probably should to those who use Outlook on any regular
>basis)>

Posted by Ken
Nov 28, 2018 at 03:56 PM

washere wrote:
In the last part of your initial post you mentioned the possibility of a
>“tag list (folder)”, that’s why I suggested those two. Attached Notes
>can be tags in the first, and a folder(s) can be setup to move unread
>emails to, and then process one by one, in the second extension. I don’t
>know any listing view customization, but if I come across once, will
>post.

I was using the folder (or tag view in GMail terminology) as an example and am sorry that it created some confusion. But, the apps that you recommended are quite interesting so I am glad you recommended them. They may come in handy for other uses.

Thanks,

—Ken

Posted by Ken
Nov 28, 2018 at 03:57 PM

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
Hi Ken,
> >I am using Gmail (the professional G Suite actually) with the Dark
>theme. I just checked and I do see a cursor, though it may not be as
>evident as in Outlook. It is a vertical blue line at the left of the
>last read message.
> >I checked another account with the default white theme and did not see
>such a cursor. Curious.
> >The cursor marks the last read message. If I delete the message, it then
>marks the one which was just above the one deleted.
> Very Interesting! I do not normally like dark themes, but this is the behavior that I have been looking for, so I will have to give it a try. Thanks for pointing this out, Alexander.

—Ken

Posted by washere
Nov 29, 2018 at 03:14 AM

Half the time I do not use browsers for my email accounts. I used to use Bluemail on chromebook/android a lot but stopped as they’re still fairly anon and also were sending id/passwords un-encrypted. Never got into Aquamail on android.

So now half the time I just use trusty old Thunderbird (Mozilla, old, free) on Windows. On it I got gmail accounts/yahoo/my websites domains etc. Has hundreds of plugins/themes/extensions, can set it up any way, much better than outlook imho. Hope this helps someone looking for a replacement for outlook.

https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/

https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/extensions/

Posted by washere
Nov 29, 2018 at 03:23 AM

P.S. also available on Linux, I have Linux desktop and apps, WSL, usually running on my laptops on second virtual desktops side-by-side with Windows. They also do Macs but Android and iOS are not in the pipeworks, don’t hold your breath, not happening.

https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/all/

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