Re: Expunge labels and dealing with expunges at the beginning of the folder

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

Note that this one doesn't mean that all occurrences of "Expunged"
labels will be gone now. This is, however, one cause why you might have
seen corrupted-like header-list views and after clicking again seeing it
being corrected (if you ever saw that).


On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 16:11 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> This commit is highly experimental and will need testing.
> 
> For testing I recommend doing the following with and without these
> changes:
> 
> o. Append a bunch of items in an empty folder
> o. Open it in tny (the folder)
> o. Click outside of the folder in tny (select another folder)
> o. Delete a few messages with the lowest UID using another E-mail client
>    from the folder
> o. Click the folder in tny
> 
> Tinymail used to simply re-fetch all, marking all as expunged in the
> process, re-retrieving all.
> 
> With this patch will Tinymail try harder to keep the not-really expunged
> summary info by counting how many removals we had, and shifting the
> lists in such a way that we'll just compare assuming that the removal
> will soon happen locally too.
> 
> http://tinymail.org/trac/tinymail/changeset/3299
> 
> Therefore reducing local expunges and .. bandwidth. Although bandwidth
> ain't the reason for this one. Rather, getting rid of those "Expunged"
> labels.
> 
> It's tricky, so everybody who's into this can of course review the
> commit. It'll need testing obviously.
> 
> 
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