Re: [Evolution-hackers] RFC: Check for mail only in subscribed folders.

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 05:41, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 09:16 +1030, Not Zed wrote:
> > I don't understand why the option is called 'show only sub'?  Doesn't it
> > mean 'only update subscribed'?
> 
> Just a limitation of the way Camel lets you add your own options. 
> The 'show only sub' option does precisely what 'use_lsub' used to. 
> 
> If you have 'use_lsub' and not 'show only sub' enabled, then it uses the
> only other sane meaning of 'active folders' that I can think of -- those
> are the ones which have new mail arriving.
> 
> This would be a _lot_ better if it were to let me offer the option:
> 
>  Check mail in:   < INBOX only >
>                   < Subscribed folders >
>                   < All folders >
> 
> The mechanism, however, is sound and is the only sane interpretation of
> subscription folders in the case where you are displaying all folders,
> surely?
> 
> The RFC says subscription marks 'active' folders. If that doesn't mean
> folders I want visible, surely it must mean folders which are active in
> that they receive mail. Other mail clients may not implement
> check-only-active-folders this way but perhaps that's because other mail
> clients don't spent _minutes_ checking all folders for new mail while
> the user twiddles his thumbs waiting for the mail he just _clicked_ on.

well, then this is a bug in the way the current imap code works. I don't
want to add hacks that we will have to keep around forever even after
we've fixed the source of the problem.

Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
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