Feature request: folders opening, or some other way to know which folders have received new emails

Now that not having this elementary feature has actually cost me money, thanks for never so much as acknowledging this request in the two and a half years since the first time I submitted it.

@Mike: I truly am sorry about that. In the ideal world I would have time to answer every ticket here and every incoming request by private email and the mailing list. Given the single resource I have (time), I do my best and try to balance it with working on MailMate itself -- which I do most of the time. I do feel terrible for every request I'm not responding to, but the only alternative is to stop working on MailMate.

MailMate is an advanced niche email application with a lot features and a lot of flaws. Users have equally advanced requests and complex problems and they do write me a lot. I can answer emails all day and I would still not be able to keep up.

Some days I have to fix some obscure security issue, some days I have to add OAuth2 support to make MailMate work for the Exchange people, some days I have to make some weird workaround for Gmail users, some days I have to fix self-inflicted stupid bugs in MailMate, some days I have to work around some weird issue in some weird IMAP server, some days I have to work around some weird issue with emails generated by some other email client/service, some months I have to rewrite parts of MailMate to work with the latest Apple frameworks, and the list goes on.

Today: I have to decide if it's all worth it...

Please stop using MailMate! It's clearly not helping you in your work.

Please stop removing/changing tickets -- they do have value for me and they are referenced in my internal system (even if I don't acknowledge/comment on them). I'll see if there are any payments I can still refund.

@Mike: Some of your patronage payments were already refunded, but I've stopped the patronage and refunded the latest payment ($10). The purchase of a license key ($30 in 2013) and one remaining patronage payment are more than 365 days ago and the payment system does not allow me to refund. Instead I've attempted to transfer the remaining $40 using PayPal (using your feedback email address). That's the best I can do. Let me know if I have missed any payments (maybe in a different name). I'll do my best to be quick to reply! (I'll certainly be working in my lighthouse-ticket-related email inbox today.)

You can, of course, continue to use the license key for MailMate as long as you need to migrate to a better email client. Based on earlier correspondence (and tickets) I think it's safe to say that MailMate (and my level of support) is not a match for you. I do get that. When I look at MailMate, I only see the bugs and missing features. When I look at my Inbox, I only see the unanswered emails.