evolution 2.2.0 needs this patch to have the feature back in: http://bugs.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=73192 I got this information on #evolution irc channel. seems like most distributions will ship evolution with this patch
Created attachment 53192 [details, diff] patch in portage format put this file into /mail-client/evolution/files directory and add following lines into evolution-2.2.0.ebuild file: src_unpack() { unpack ${A} # bug #84882 -- get "mark message as unread/read" back into context # popup menu epatch ${FILESDIR}/menu2.patch }
Applied to evolution-2.2.0-r1 in CVS. Thanks for the report and patch.