New and old messages

Tipperton · Post by **Tipperton** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 8:01 pm

Is there a setting that will mark all current headers as old when I start a Get New Headers task? Would sure make it easier to know what's new since the last time I got new headers.

The only thing I've seen so far would mark all headers as old on loading which is not what I want.

hholland · Post by **hholland** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 8:08 pm

Properties> General> "mark new headers old on load".

Not the exact wording you might expect, but then Alex ain't a southerner;

Tipperton · Post by **Tipperton** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 8:17 pm

hholland wrote:Properties> General> "mark new headers old on load".

I'll try it, the way I interpret that is when you load the program or newsgroup all headers will be marked as old.

Tipperton · Post by **Tipperton** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 8:17 pm

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Tipperton · Post by **Tipperton** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 12:21 pm

Well I tried the Mark headers old on load and it does exactly what it says, it marks all current headers as old when you load/open the news group, this is not what I want so I turned it back off.

What I was looking for is for this to happen when I get new headers

Mark all headers in news group as old
Get new headers

This way only the newly retrieved headers will be new and will stay that way until the next time I get new headers, that is what I want!

Guess I'll just have to do it manually....

Open news group
Select all headers
Mark as old
Get new headers

Josef K · Post by **Josef K** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 5:39 pm

Tipperton wrote:
Open news group
Select all headers
Mark as old
Get new headers

You don't need to select all headers to mark them old. There's a 'Mark all headers old' button on the main toolbar. If you customised your toolbar and the button is not there anymore you can find it in File->Default toolbar. This will mark all headers in an open group old whether they're visible or not (filtered out).