Re: [Evolution] imap...synchronization chaos ;)

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 15:39 +0200, Gábor Farkas wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 20:52 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 11:35 +0200, Gábor Farkas wrote: 
> > > On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 16:47 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 10:14 +0200, Gábor Farkas wrote:  
> > > > > hi,
>
> > > unfortunately it does not seem to be like that.
> > > i tried the following approach:
> > > 
> > > 1. i created a new imap account in evolution
> > > 2. i turned on the auto-sync-remote-mails in the imap account settings
> > > 3. i have an INBOX, and also several subdirectories. one of them is
> > > 'burn'
> > > 4. the INBOX was automatically updated (the number of new mails was
> > > shown),
> > > but not the subdirectories
> > > 5. i pressed the send/receive button. the number of unread mails was
> > > updated for all folders.
> > > 6. not that i did not went into any of the subdirs.
> > > 7. i stopped the network connection (/etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop)
> > > 8. i clicked on the 'burn' subdir.
> > > 9. evolution froze with a 'opening imap://blabla' in the status bar
> > > 10. i've killed evo because i did not want to wait (i assume there's a
> > > timeout...)
> > 
> > you still have to go offline manually if you drop the connection.  the
> > little connection button at the bottom of the window.
>
> yes...but then it does not work like:
>
>
> >  It means that messages will be copied to the local hard disk as they
> arrive on the
> >  server.  The old code used to just copy it when you 'went offline', 
> >  if it wasn't there already.
>
> the new code also only copies if you go online :((

Uh, i explained cases where it does this.  The new code does copy messages as they arrive, but 'arrive' depends on a lot of factors.

If you know the answer already why keep asking and just annoying me?  I've got real work to do, i'm an engineer, not a support line.

> ok, i'll keep using offlineimap...
>
> would it make sense to add a feature request to evolution-bugzilla to
> have thic correctly implemented (kmail has something like that too
> btw..)
>
> gabor

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Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> "born to die, live to work, it's all downhill from here" Novell's Evolution and Free Software Developer