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"Sean Cameron" <SeanCameron@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:9B38BFFD-84E6-4839-917A-0CF57B1DD7FF@microsoft.com...
> "David Wright" wrote:
>
>> I am using Windows Mail in Vista RTM and when I get the new mail icon showing
>> up in my system tray. All of that is fine, the issue comes when I have
>> deleted the new email without reading it (don't feel like reading spam :P).
>> The new mail icon remains in the system tray, even though I don't have new
>> mail, until I close Windows Mail. Is this supposed to happen?
>
> It is incredibly lame, the same thing happened with Outlook Express when a
> mail rule was applied (even if the rule marked it as read). Of course this
> was expected to some extent because:
>
> 1) Outlook Express was an old, very simple mail client and it wasn't being
> actively maintained.
> 2) The spam filtering had to be external, as it had no built in spam
> filtering.
>
> The fact that it still does this is a good indication that the development
> team are not using it on a day to day basis, as it annoys every single person
> I have ever seen using OE (and now Windows Mail).
>
> The Mail Rules need updating too, there is no "when a message is marked as
> spam" option.