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OE
includes a new feature ‘Automatically display folders
with unread messages’ under Tools>Options>General.
Enabling this option will automatically open a mail
folder that has subfolders in which new messages reside
(presumably, by operation of the Inbox Assistant).
This
should address user complaints such as not being able
to tell when a subfolder has new messages in it.
In addition
to the basic functionality added by the ‘Automatically
display folders…’, the feature can be further extended
with a few modest registry modifications. To toggle
on and off other kinds of folders, you first need to
find the ‘Expand Unread’ DWORD in your System Registry
under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express.
Once
you’ve found Expand Unread DWORD, you can use the numbers
below to yield different folder expansion combinations:
1- Mail
folders only
3- Mail and IMAP folders
5- News and Mail folders
7- News, Mail and IMAP folders
Those
curious about trying even numbers (2,4,6,8 etc), will
find that the auto expansion feature automatically gets
disabled.
Again,
if you enable the auto expand feature through the user
interface and click Apply, the Expand Unread DWORD will
be reset to a value of 1 (where only Mail folders will
automatically expand). So, for maximum control, you’ll
need to disable the option under Tools>Options>General.
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