---- Reported by geary-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-09-19 15:31:00 -0700 ----

Original Redmine bug id: 7517
Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/7517
Searchable id: yorba-bug-7517
Original author: Dan D
Original description:

As of 19th September 2013, I am presented my Gmail "inbox" folder upon
launching Geary.

I would like that it be possible to see the "Important" folder upon opening
Geary, instead of just the regular "inbox" as is now the non-configurable
default. I click into the "Important" folder upon every launch, because those
are the emails I want to see. The regular inbox gets in the way of the
automagic benefit of a priority ("Important") mail box.

**Suggested methods of implementation:**

a) give an interface to select which folder to be presented upon launching
Geary mail. for example:

gear button > "Preferences" > under Defaults heading > [] Set default mailbox
(simple dropdown here listing all the folders)

b) give a menu option "Show important messages on launch (Gmail only)" with a
check box

gear button > "Preferences" > under Defaults heading > [] Show only important
messages on launch (Gmail only)

c) remember the user's last-open folder, and open it at launch; Move to
'inbox' if that folder has been deleted or is not successfully opened.

d) prefer 'Important' over Inbox where the user has an 'Important' folder,
without user intervention. So, automatically show 'Important" at launch. Use
'Important' if attempting to fetch a "last-used folder", but "last-used
folder" has been deleted or can't be fetched (as in idea c above).

**P.S.**

A brief description of Important mail in Gmail: Gmail accounts automatically
sort a user's mail into "Important" or "not important". The aim is to guess
what mail is important to you, and Gmail's system is fairly accurate at
guessing. Gmail tracks what kinds of messages you tend to look at or ignore.
The ones you look at are "important", the ones you ignore are "not important".
If a real person emails you, it tends to end up being marked as important.
Password resets and other notifications are usually marked "important".

Related issues:
related to geary - Feature #6325: Persist sessions state (Open)



---- Additional Comments From geary-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-09-19 17:24:00 -0700 ----

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#1

Updated by Jim Nelson 2 months ago

I'd say (c) is the way we'd want to go, along with #6325, which means Geary
will open right where you left off when you last closed it.



--- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-21 20:24 UTC  ---

This bug was previously known as _bug_ 7517 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7517

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