Re: Lost count...

[Matthew Guenther <mguenthe engr uvic ca>]

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Nathan Clemons wrote:
> 
> Actually, I think I might have just stumbled on to it... I'm viewing an IMAP
> connection and then check for new mail. A new piece arrives, but the total
> count does not update. I click on the down arrow, see the new message, select
> it, and get the 1 messages, 0 new.
> 
> Can anyone else duplicate this? I'm going to head to bed and work on this
> tomorrow.
>

I wrote most of the mailbox/message counting code, so I can tell you that
right now it only counts the number of messages in a mailbox when it loads it,
then decrements the counter when a message is deleted.  Unread messages are
only counted when loaded, and the counter is decremented when a message is
read or deleted.  

I was planning on working on this (for all mailboxes though, not only IMAP),
but I got stuck finishing up the UI.  

> Side note, I notice that the word-wrap is set to 79 when you do the ctrl-z.
> What is the viewer set to? It does not seem to be the same...
>

AFAIK, the preview pane wraps it to whatever column you've set your output
wrapping to be (In Settings->Preferences->Mail Options).  This is a bug IMHO,
I just can't think of an intuitive way to set both of them without totally
confusing a new user.

MBG

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