Re: [Evolution] 1.5.7 oddity

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 01:01 -0400, Michael R Head wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 12:12 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 13:26 -0700, Des Dougan wrote: 
> > 
> > How do you know the mail has been received there?
> > 
> > You visit it?
>
> I watch the exim/procmail logs on the server and note that evolution
> doesn't yet know about new mail in those folders. When I visit folders
> that should have new messages, it then tells me about them. For some
> folders, it seems to work (notably, the evolution mailing list). Ones
> that don't seem to work well are my Sent-from/* and Sent-to/*.
But you're hitting a limitation of the IMAP protocol here.  It has no way (apart from a just-expired experimental rfc) of informing clients of any changes to any folder outside the currently selected one.

Which is why we have to do some stupid/slow send/receive hacks.
> Send/Receive doesn't seem to do much of anything (anymore) for IMAP. In
> 1.4, it very clearly checked each folder (that is, it displayed a
> message about each folder it was visiting).
>
> I have "automatically check for new mail every X minutes" set to 5.
> I have "check for new mail in all folders" set as well.
> I have filters turned off, and I have disabled "show only subscribed
> folders" (though I have them all subscribed for thunderbird in windows).

> My current workaround is to exit evolution and start it up. At startup,
> it seems to find everything just fine.
>
>
> > When you click 'send/recv' does it fix it?
> > What output do you get from the terminal (when you run it from a
> > terminal)?  It should spit a lot of crap about updating unread counts.
>
> I haven't yet run it from the commandline. But I will do it when I get a
> chance.


> What's the URL for the bug?

this isn't exactly the same but is close enough:
http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=56552
> > 
> > > Regards,
> > > 
> > > Des
> > > 
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> > > 
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Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> Ximian Evolution and Free Software Developer

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