Past as preposition

Could you describe the situation, what exactly you mean to say?

EngABIIs there is problem with this sentence? "I WAS PAST THE PREVIOUS EMAIL." From dictionary, I know that when PAST is used as preposition it can refer to "above or further than a particular point or stage". An email is not a particular point or stage. Is this a wrong sentence?

My guess: beyond, having already read the message. It

Dear Marius:
My friend sent me an email and say
""I WAS PAST THE PREVIOUS EMAIL."
It looks to be a wrong sentence to me. My friend said he wanted to say he had already discussed the email with me(I don't think so but this is not important). I can't see how a human can be PAST an email. We can say "I was past playing football" to mean we are too old for playing football. But past an

Well, let's say you're in your mail tool on your computer.

You're provided with a list (listing) of current messages.

You select a message, read it, then close it, and go to the next.

One can argue that at the time of opening the next message, you are past the previous one and in the current message. Something along the lines

Dear Marius:
Thank you. Good to learn a new way of thinking.

>My friend said he wanted to say he had already discussed the email with me

If he wants to say that he doesn't want to discuss that message with you (e.g. because he did that already), he could say:

I am past discussing this e-mail/subject with you, I am moving on.