Re: [Evolution] IMAP+ does not register that mail has been marked read?

[Bjørn T Johansen <btj havleik no>]

On Tue, 2016-04-26 at 15:28 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:

> On Tue, 2016-04-26 at 09:34 +0200, Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
> > Depends on which setting you are talking about.. But I have enabled
> > check mail in all folders and that is working as it should.
>
>
> 	Hi,
> okay, those are for the automatic check, where I agree they should work
> as expected.
>
> > The problem is when I read the email from another MUA, then Evolution
> > still shows that the folders have unread emails until I enter the
> > folders...
>
>
> There are some issues when running multiple clients against the same
> server simultaneously, definitely with the \Recent flag on the message
> (there is no guarantee which client will receive it), but as the IMAPx
> doesn't use that flag it's not that important.
>
> The only option you might get notified "online" about the change is
> either by using the IDLE or NOTIFY commands, if the server supports
> them. The problem with IDLE is that it works only for the currently
> selected folder (not necessarily selected in the Evolution UI), where
> the IMAPx prefers to IDLE in the Inbox, because its the place where the
> messages are usually incoming. Running IDLE in other folders, from
> other connections, is not guaranteed.
>
> You can run the evolution from a terminal as:
>    $ CAMEL_DEBUG=imapx:io evolution
> and wait for the IDLE being shown there, then change the message from
> the other client and watch whether the change had been received by the
> evolution. If the IDLE is run on a different folder, then it'll not be
> shown for sure.
>
> There were bug reports about the flag change being received, but the
> evolution UI not being updated, but I wasn't able to reproduce it
> myself. I made some related changes in the code regardless, those are
> part of the 3.20.1 of the evolution-data-server.
> 	Bye,
> 	Milan
> _______________________________________________

Thx for the explanation... ​

BTJ