Re: [Evolution] Can I get an IMAP folder update up in here!

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 09:43 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> Something has been bothering me about this thread:  it doesn't ring true
> to me!  So I've just done some experiments.  I've got Evo (2.24.2)
> running on my F10 box and Outlook2007 running on a Vista machine next to
> it.  Both are looking at the same Inbox via IMAP.
>
> I can delete a message in Evo, and that change isn't immediately visible
> to Outlook.  But all it needs is to move to another folder and virtually
> immediately that message is then marked as deleted in Outlook.  So some
> write back of information is happening at times.
>
> It doesn't work in the other direction though - deleting in Outlook
> doesn't get automatically picked up by Evo unless I force a reload of
> the folders by closing it down and restarting.
>
> So the issue appears to *not* be one of Evo writing back the info.  It's
> an issue of Evo not *reading* and updating the cached information.

That actually makes a lot of sense. Not too long ago someone (I forget
who, but they seemed to know what they were talking about) said that Evo
synched when you changed folders. I was assuming that this had somehow
changed with 2.24 but I hadn't tested it.

Only a bit OT: half the problems people have with Evo could be solved if
there was a clearly-defined model of what it does in various
circumstances. I don't mean the source code, which let's face no-one is
going to read, but an architectural definition, readable to the
intelligent layman and guaranteed to be consistent across multiple
versions. At the moment, all we have is a lot of folklore derived from
the archives of this list, the FAQ, the very inadequate user
documentation (which seems designed to conceal this sort of detail), and
a lot of black-box experimentation.

poc