Whose Faulty Vision

Stupid Microsoft Interface of the Whenever

Microsoft Outlook, when I have unread mail, puts a little envelope icon in the bottom right corner of the screen, next to the clock. That’s not the stupid interface–that’s kind of handy. The stupid interface is that the icon counts unread mail even if my filters send it strait to my “Junk Mail” folder, or even if it’s in my “Deleted Items” folder. Why do I care if I have unread spam? I want a setting that only shows unread mail in my inbox.

Apple’s Mail.app, incidentally, gets this right. The unread mail count on the Mail icon only counts mail in your inboxes, not in your spam folder.