Re: [Evolution] Unread message mis-count in search folders

[Alpár Jüttner <alpar cs elte hu>]

Hi,

As far as I'm concerned, I currently have "-1330 unread -66 total"
mails(*) in my main search folder.

(*) I'm not sure if I should use plural form if I have less than minus
one of something. Grammar books seem to be quite superficial in this
question.

Best regards,
Alpar

On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 23:53 -0800, Scott wrote:
> Retry:  for some reason this didn't post Wednesday
>
> OK Guys, Here's a different perspective...
>
> I thought I'd file post tonight and then a bug  as I have had mismatched
> search folder message counts for about a month since upgrading to 2.4.2.
>
> I've subscribed to the list & read a bunch of the posts, and have seen
> some comments relative to my unread mis-count problem but none really
> like what I have....had.
>
> I've just started using search folders - For the last year or so, I have
> been holding on to the Outlook tradition of filtering out of the in-box
> & moving mail to folders on the tree.
>
> I thought I'd start using Evo as intended, and created some search
> folders.  Then the Evo-list search folder got immediately messed up when
> from habit, I read some posts from the in-box, auto-marking them as
> read, BUT, the search folder still counted all as unread.  I have been
> several counts-off since, in that and a few other search folders.  I
> could "fix" it if I manually marked-unread *before* leaving the in-box,
> but once I'd left it, that wouldn't work.
>
> Now this has been going on for many days, Evo has been opened and closed
> many times ans the machine restarted and re-booted many times. This
> afternoon the folders were still off-count. Moments ago, I set a
> recurring calendar appointment, switched over to read mail and get
> screen-shots ready for this post.  As I worked through the folders, I
> noticed the counts were now correct.  So I couldn't take screen-shots.
>
>         I did get a screen shot on Friday, And you can see the Search
>         folder off-counts & the CRAP folder up the tree there - a Manual
>         filter, catches blatant stuff Junk misses. Both Evo and Choir
>         display no unread messages in the folders- scrolled up and down
>         several times to be sure!
>
> This afternoon I deleted 3 Evo-list posts from the CRAP folder, Keyed on
> "SPAM" "[Evolution] Spam in IMAP inbo..."  (They're still in the search
> folder however- & assumed normal behavior.) This action apparently caused a
> Check-Count of search folders, as that's the only action that I can see
> that logically makes sense. A calendar change doesn't.   
>
>         Now the DATE is of note here... The 3 deleted Evo-list messages were from Saturday Jan
>         17  4:39am, 7:05am and Monday 9:28am   The Junk filter has been working
>         great, so I haven't had anything to delete for a long time from CRAP -
>         so NOTHING was in the folder for the screen-shot taken on Friday the
>         16th. 
> I did not notice at the time of deletion, whether or not the message
> count corrected itself immediately or not, but when Evo was opened for
> this evening's session, the counts were correct.
>
> So, I guess I can't really file a bug report as it's now working
> correctly...
>
> I'm still confused, but Evo's still sending and receiving as it's
> expected to do, so I'm happy.
>
> Scott
>
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