Re: [Evolution] [ews] Possible to skip downloading messages for offline for a single folder?

[Robert Munteanu <robert munteanu gmail com>]

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 7:14 PM, Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-05-10 at 15:29 +0300, Robert Munteanu wrote:
> > Since I run server-side filters and have ~100 folders where messages
> > can pop-up due to the mentioned filters, not running sync
> > automatically would be a bigger pain compared to long-running sync
> > tasks.
>
>         Hi,
> the download for offline use is made on an opt-in bases, which means
> that you either enable download for offline for the whole account, or
> for each folder separately. That can be found in the folder Properties.
>
> I can imagine that an ideal solution would be to have the option in the
> folder Properties three-state:
>    [o] - greyed - with a meaning "follow account settings"
>    [ ] - empty - do not copy messages for offline
>    [x] - checked - always copy messages for offline in this folder
> That way the user would have more freedom and more "adaptive" solution
> for his/her needs. I do not know whether there exists any bug report
> with such feature request in the GNOME bugzilla, but I'm pretty sure
> there are more similar options which would advantage the three-state
> values, instead of just two-state (on/off).

Finally got around to filing the bug

  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=766682

Thanks,

Robert

> I understand that with ~100 folders it's very time consuming (near to
> impossible) to selectively pick all the folders for the offline
> download, except of the Deleted Items, though there is currently
> nothing better available, as far as I know.
>         Bye,
>         Milan
>
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