Re: Sorting the message index panel for MicroSoft Exchange IMAP mailboxes.

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 07/07/06 13:57:44, Mişu Moldovan wrote:
> În data de Mi 28 iun 06 la 00:32, Pawel Salek a scris:
> [snip]
> > So, it was the lack of server-side sorting on Exchange side, and lack
> >
> > of client-side sort fallback for imap mailboxes on balsa side. I have
> >
> > just commited the patch that we discussed - with one more extension
> > needed for handling of simultaneous filtering and sorting.
>
> I am also affected by this problem when accessing Exchange through  
> IMAP. I would add that:
>
> * threads are not identified for the Exchange folders and subfolders

I think this will also require similar client-side implementation as  
the sorting algorithm. I will check how much data is missing on the  
client side...

> * Balsa cannot properly detect new mails no matter what combinations  
> of "persistent cache"/"use workarounds"/"use STATUS" I've tried. The  
> best combination seems to be "persistent cache", "use workarounds"  
> and no "STATUS", but it only sees new mails in opened sub-folders. No  
> matter what I've tried it doesn't see new mails in the INBOX :(
>
> * sometimes mails in the Drafts folder have a hidden "new message"  
> property because Ctrl-N moves to them, although the GUI do not show  
> them as new

Can you please send some outputs generated by running balsa with -D  
argument to me? Feel free to remove the private information from the  
output.

> * it sees an additional "." folder on the same level with INBOX, with  
> no content, nothing seems to happen when I click on the "." folder  
> which has an icon that looks like the icon for the GNOME folders
>
> * it thinks that the root nodes of the Public Folders structure are  
> supposed to contain mail (they show up with "0" in the left pane and  
> I can click on them and they open like regular subfolders).

Same for these. These problems appear for 2.3.12, I suppose?

Pawel