Re: [Geary] Testing wanted - background sync fixes

[Federico Bruni <fede inventati org>]

Il giorno sab 2 dic 2017 alle 2:29, Michael Gratton <mike vee net> ha 
scritto:
> Hi all,
>
> If you have set your Geary accounts to download all mail and have 
> been experiencing Geary's background sync process never quite finding 
> all of the messages, causing it to always go back and try to find 
> them every time, can you please try running Geary from git master and 
> let me know if the issue is fixed there for you?
>
> After building and launching Geary from git master, you should the 
> background sync do a full run back to Jan 1 2000 for each problematic 
> folder once more at startup, but from then on only when a folder 
> changes and then only partially, i.e. not all the way back to the 
> year 2000.
>
> Note that you currently need to use "-d --log-periodic" when running 
> geary to see the background sync's activity.
>
> I've just pushed some changes to master that fixes the issue for me, 
> and would like to get some feedback to see if it addresses the issue 
> for others as well, as part of Bug 713530[0]. If you do see any 
> issues with it, please add a note to that bug.
>
> Thanks!
> //Mike
>
>
> [0] - <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=713530>

Is this something that a user may have not realized even if it 
happened? I mean, you may not realize that a folder is syncing 2 or 
three old messages while you open it. IIUC...

It might be worth explaining what we need to check in the log.
I guess it's email_total vs local_count occurencies?
Indeed I see some mismatches of old folders which are supposed to be 
already synced. Some examples:

[deb] 14:41:29 0,001973 Oldest local email in fede domain1 it:INBOX 
(open_count=1 remote_opened=true) not old enough 
(2017-03-16T09:52:39+0000 vs. 2000-01-01T00:00:00+0100), 
email_total=118 vs. local_count=107, synchronizing...

[deb] 14:42:01 0,080185 Oldest local email in fede domain1 it:Archivio 
(open_count=0 remote_opened=false) not old enough 
(2015-12-27T00:04:30+0000 vs. 2000-01-01T00:00:00+0100), 
email_total=885 vs. local_count=826, synchronizing...

[deb] 14:41:30 0,081430 Oldest local email in fede domain2 org:Archive 
(open_count=0 remote_opened=false) not old enough 
(2015-05-24T21:30:30+0000 vs. 2000-01-01T00:00:00+0100), 
email_total=3586 vs. local_count=3585, synchronizing...

If you confirm, I'll check the latest master on my desktop machine, 
which currently runs master~gf42a5d4f