Re: [Evolution-hackers] Status of mail-refactor-2 branch todo

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

you're definition of 'not hard' isn't mine :)

On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 12:32, Dan Winship wrote:
> > > "First new unread" wouldn't be hard. We'd just have to decide when a
> > 
> > You think?  We'd have to track every uid that was there since last we
> > started the mailer - ugh.
> 
> Well, if you make CamelFolder do it, then in the IMAP case, it can just
> note what the highest UID was in the summary before it scanned for new
> messages, and then find the first unread message with a UID higher than
> that. (Providers that don't have strictly increasing UIDs, like
> Connector, would need to do things a little differently.)
> 
> Or if you don't want to involve the provider, do camel_store_get_folder,
> set "CAMEL_MESSAGE_OLD" on every message in the folder, then do
> camel_folder_refresh and find the first message without the flag.
> 
> -- Dan
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