> I can no longer distinguish between mail that I have read and mail that I simply don't care about. Why is this distinction important? When do you need to bro

> I can no longer distinguish between mail that I have read and mail that I simply don't care about. Why is this distinction important? When do you need to browse through mail that you've read? If you need to find something you can just search for it by content or individual. The problem with automatically applying a 'seen' label, is that it forces you to to immediately filter through all your new mail. You can't stop halfway because then some 'unseen' mail will get marked 'seen'.