Re: [Evolution] IMAP: last message to arrive in a folder is not shown

[John N S Gill <jng renre-europe com>]

On Tue, 2001-10-16 at 19:10, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> IMAP doesn't send us notices that new mail has arrived until we actually
> try to do something with the folder that new mail arrived in, thus you
> aren't going to ever see mail just pop into your IMAP folder the instant
> it arrives.

That's fine by me.

>  We have a timeout that "pings" the folder every 10 minutes
> or so to both keep the connection alive and to check for new mail - so
> just hold your horses and wait a few minutes.

is this a separate timeout to the "automatically check for new mail
every xx minute(s)" option that you can set in receiving options?

If so, could you include whatever it does in the automatic check for new
mail?

>  or set auto-check mail to
> check your mail every second if that's what you want.

The mail setting dialog only lets you choose an integral number of
minutes between checks.  I have mine set to check every minute, but it
still fails to pick up the most recent arrival.  

I think the bug below completely characterises the problem.

 http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5348

Seems to me we need the "automatic check for mail" to do a bit more
probing of the IMAP folders than it currently does.

John