Re: [Evolution] Auto Select First Message in List

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Fri, 2021-07-09 at 13:41 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote:
> On Fri, 2021-07-09 at 10:53 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > I do have "Show Deleted Messages", yet if I delete a message it
> > disappears from the list a second or two later (not instantly).
>
>         Hi,
> there had been a feature request to support Undo in the Mail view,
> but
> it was never implemented. One reason is the undo is not a real undo,
> you cannot restore to the exact same state when the messages are
> moved
> around in the IMAP folders (the UID changes, together with the folder
> state).

Yes, that's clear.

> With respect of the delay for the message move, that can be changed
> for
> the account. The delay means how long to wait to save all the changes
> in the folder to the server. Before this change, the local changes
> had
> been saved only when moving away from the folder or when using
> send/receive or some such moments, which is not practical when the
> user
> stays in a single folder most of the time.
>
> You can search:
>
>    ~/.config/evolution/sources/
>
> for a .source file referencing your IMAP account. Such file contains
> this text: "[Imapx Backend]" (quotes for clarity only). There's a
> key:
>    StoreChangesInterval=3
> which contains a value in seconds. There are special values for it,
> the 0 means to save changes immediately, while a negative value turns
> the auto-save off.
>
> This worked for remote accounts (IMAP/EWS/...) for a long time. It
> had
> been extended for any account type recently, within:
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-data-server/-/issues/273
>
> I do not know whether it's of any use for you.

I'll have a look, thanks. Does this have any data loss implications if
the system (or Evo) should crash before the save happens?

poc