Re: [Evolution] 'syncing' evolution.

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 02:30, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 05:56, Not Zed wrote:
> > On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 12:47, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 18:35, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 13:07, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> [...]
> > > > It has been discussed recently in a couple of threads :
> > > > http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution/2002-November/022710.html
> > > > http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution/2002-October/022373.html
> > >
> > > Sorry, but my question is completely different from what was asked in
> > > these threads. I have evo running 24/7 on both machines. When getting
> > > home the mails that are already read appear as unread mail. I do not
> > > want to exit evo. All I want is evo to refresh its 'read' mail status.
> >
> > Evolution currently cannot operate in this mode.  You need to quit one
> > of the clients to pick up the changes.
>
> looks like going to offline mode and then to online mode also causes a
> full rescan. however this still takes ages compared to just rescanning
> whose read/unread mail counts.

It doesn't require a full re-scan, but it does require a scan of all
flags and messages.  IMAP has no other way of notifying off-line updates
to folders, so it is either this, or you have an invalid image of the
folder which isn't acceptable to most users.