Re: [Evolution] IMAP glitches

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 01:30, Chris Petersen wrote:
> I've been meaning to mention this for awhile, and my appologies if this 
> has already been addressed..
>
> I use an IMAP connection to connect to my local machine because maildir 
> format was not originally supported particularly well (detected subfolders 
> merely as root folders with longer names - ie .Lists.Evolution instead of 
> Lists->Evolution)..  Anyway, this aside (as I've already mentioned it and 

That might depend on how the server is storing the folders.  If its
using '.'s, as some imap servers do, evolution is just going to list
them as top level folders.  If the maildir tree is represented using
multiple subdirectories, then it should work.

> hopefully it is/will be fixed), I've noticed a number of weird things with 
> IMAP performance..
>
> Mainly, I leave evolution open on my home machine when I go to work.  At 
> work, I ssh in and use pine..  When I get home, evolution will often not 
> have noticed many of the changes I've made with pine, including message 
> deletions, etc.  These deleted messages still show up in the message lists 
> in evolution, but when I click on them I get an error (because they're not 
> there anymore).  But that's all that happens.  Shouldn't evolution be 
> checking for LACK of messages as well as new ones when it does a mailbox 
> update check?  And if the message is gone, shouldn't it remove it from the 
> list?   This in itself is mildly annoying, but (at least in older versions 
> - hasn't happened in awhile) it would also occasionally segfault after 
> selecting several different nonexistent messages.
>
> Anyway, just thought I'd mention it.

Yeah we know it has problems like this.  I dont know of any plans to
address it - I certainly know that nobody (i.e. me or Jeff) wants to
touch the existing imap code any more than absolutely necessary.

Well it also depends on if the server is sending the appropriate
EXPUNGED untagged response to notify evolution of the change, which i
suspect some servers dont do properly.