Re: Problems with public folders

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 12/16/2004 04:41:40 PM, Misu Moldovan wrote:
> However, I have some issues with Balsa 2.2.6 (as packaged in Debian
> Sid), the most annoying being that Balsa doesn't mark as read the
> messages that I've already opened in a public folder on an IMAP server

We really should. The only reason we do not is that Cyrus imap server  
incorrectly complains when trying to store session-only flags. I guess  
we should just ignore response we get from cyrus.

> I don't know how Mozilla/Thunderbird mark them as read, although the
> folders are read-only. But currently I'm keeping both Balsa and

Are these flags persistent or get reset next time you start Mozilla?  
The fact is, Mozilla uses quite extentisive client side mapping and I  
can imagine they could manage client-side flag maps. Balsa can mark  
messages as read for a session - implementing more extensive  
client-side caching might be worth it but it would require much more  
effort, too.

> Thunderbird opened all the time and I use Balsa for regular mails and
> Thunderbird for reading mail in public folders. And somehow the
> messages that show up as read in Thunderbird show up as read in Balsa
> too,

That's really interesting! Even if the folders are read-only?

> However, I cannot currently figure out how to configure Balsa to
> behave properly in regards to public folders.

Currently, you cannot: the code has to be amended. One has to discuss  
desired behavior to decide what is the expected balsa behavior.

Pawel