What you say is right and to a certain extent enlightening: the New Mail folder is the built-in Last Mail folder, and consequently it would be unelegant to add another folder with the same function.

My problem arises when messages disappear from the New Mail folder due to reception rules, and when reception rules folders are too numerous to be seen all at once. In that situation I have a new message without an indication of new message directly on the screen, which is always bad for a mail client. The solution you suggest is to make reception rules applicable only when folder is closed, which is very clever indeed: Messages would be visible in chronological order in New Mail folder, and after that archived in the reception rules folders. That would be the most elegant and close to perfection. ( BTW, closing Pmail is out of question, in orthodox windows programming at least, so I assumed you meant closing folders. )

However, why should I be forced to close New Mail folder? If I have a reception folder for discussion list [scubadiving], I want to be able to open Scuba Diving folder at once without closing New Mail.

More deeply now, New Mail folder was my Last Mail folder until I learned to use reception rules. I now use specific reception folders so extensively that New Mail has become more like Primitive Mail. More precisely, it is Unexpected Mail at the top, and Unclassified Mail at the bottom.

Maybe there are simpler solutions. For example the Folders Window could show a big New Mail icon after each POP retrieval. Or a different top bar color until I have scrolled down. Or both.

Or a new Folders window with only the relevant folders. So there would be two Folders windows: one for Folders with New Mail, one for all archived mail.

Or we could start the other way round and right-click on a folder: Warn me when there is New Mail in this folder. That would perhaps be convenient, since I don't absolutely have to read mail from discussion lists immediately, but I do have to read mail from individual clients. Or maybe "Open this folder in a new window of its own whenever there is new mail." That would create a third window and would remain consistent with the rest.

I have presently my New Mail window neatly organized with subfolders that automatically receive mail.

However, I recently had several problems of unread mail from a person named Xavier. His name beginning by an X, the corresponding folder was at the bottom of the automatic reception list, and there were so many folders that I couldn't see the X folder without scrolling. Hence I didn't see the color of the folder immediately.

Maybe it would be good idea to add the possibility of a second New mail window, consisting of only the mail received in a single pop retrieval attempt, listed individually and without folders.

Maybe it could be even more elaborate, with a new button "Last Mail" in the toolbar. For example, in addition to the last pop session mail list, you would have a tab for checking the mails of previous pop sessions. In that sense, logically the present "New Mail" folder would be divided between a "Stored Mail" appearance and a "Last Mail" appearance.

But as you forgot to look at your folder named "Xavier" you can also forget to click on your wished "Last Mail" button in the toolbar.

Try to rename your folder "Xavier" to "* Xavier" or to "Javier"...

[quote user="Phil"]

But as you forgot to look at your folder named "Xavier" you can also forget to click on your wished "Last Mail" button in the toolbar.[/quote]

Not if this Last Mail folder is set to open automatically if there is mail after each pop retrieval.

[quote user="Phil"]Try to rename your folder "Xavier" to "* Xavier" or to "Javier"...[/quote]

It would just shift the problem to the next name on the list of folders. And by the way I would prefer to avoid inventing tricks to change the names of the persons who send me mail. I find that a bit awkward.

No user tweaks to replace what I wish as a feature for the system.

[quote user="arnaudherve"][quote user="Phil"]

But as you forgot to look at your folder named "Xavier" you can also forget to click on your wished "Last Mail" button in the toolbar.[/quote]

Not if this Last Mail folder is set to open automatically if there is mail after each pop retrieval. [/quote]

Ok then you can choose to let your mails in your new mail folder and create rules that trigger when you close PM, if the message is marked as read and coming from your friend Xavier then you move it to folder Xavier. Isn't it what you want? The NM folder acts exacly as your wished LM folder.

[quote user="arnaudherve"][quote user="Phil"]Try to rename your folder "Xavier" to "* Xavier" or to "Javier"...[/quote]

It would just shift the problem to the next name on the list of folders. And by the way I would prefer to avoid inventing tricks to change the names of the persons who send me mail. I find that a bit awkward.

No user tweaks to replace what I wish as a feature for the system.[/quote]

I was just joking...