Re: [Evolution] vfolders slow to update unread message count

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 13:33 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 09:04 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 09:29 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 17:22 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > > > try putting 'scan all folders for new mail' in the imap folder options.
> > >
> > > I have "Check for new mail in all folders" selected already.
> > >
> > > > the imap protocol wont tell us when new mail arrives in another folder,
> > > > only for the 'current' one (which may or may not be related to the last
> > > > one visited in the ui), so we need to ask for it explictly, and its
> > > > usually expensive.
> > >
> > > don't confuse the problem :) - I can see the new mail in evolution
> > > folders because the unread count goes up, so evolution knows about it.
> > > I think it's an evo problem because it doesn't update the vfolder.
> >
> > I wasn't confusing the problem, I was explainging why the imap protocol
> > doesn't help this.  The unread count is disconnected from the folder
> > itself too, which needs to be updated before the vfolder knows about it,
> > the vfolder knows nothing about the folder list unread count and evenif
> > it did it wouldn't be able to do anything about it.
>
> So the imap protocol wont (necessarily) tell us when new mail arrives in
> another folder.  But that shouldn't matter - because when the unread
> count goes up evo now knows there is new mail in that folder, so why
> doesn't evolution check that folder (just like it does when I select the
> folder)?

performance reasons. updating the message summary for every folder that
gets new messages the instant it gets them is impractical

> My other point is that it used to work as one would expect with
> evolution-2.0.4 - ie, as soon as the unread count went up, the vfolder
> unread count went up too.

this is untrue, it's never done this.

only thing I can think of is that you were either thinking of vfolders
based on local folders or else the IMAP folder was currently in the
SELECTED state for the vfolder you were looking at in 2.0.x

Jeff