On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 01:09 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 22:52 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I'm speechless. Was this done because some IMAP servers were buggy? If > > not, there would seem to be no justification for it. > > I believe it was done in order to fix inconsistencies in the unseen > counts on folders when the strange client-side Junk processing isn't > disabled. The Junk processing hides messages from a folder and pretends > that those messages actually exist in some other fake folder. And thus > the unseen counts in the real folder looked wrong, because some of the > unseen messages were hidden from view. > > The simple option might have been to mark the messages as read when we > decided they were junk. That wasn't what was done, though -- instead of > just being able to ask the server "how many unseen messages are there in > this folder" we now have to fetch the flags for _every_ mail in the > folder and count the ones which are unseen but not 'junk'.
Man, that's just... Messy. Instead of hiding them, what if a new "subject pane" column "Junk" were created (kinda like "Flagged!"). A Stored Search (nee Virtual Folder) would list all the Junk. But would that also require re-fetching all mails? Or, just *really* move them to the Junk Folder? Or..... disable Junk processing for IMAP!!!! Since I don't need it, nobody needs it. > In fact we also download the _headers_ for every mail in every folder > too. That's just a side-effect of the above, I think; there doesn't seem > to be even a tenuous reason for that. > > > By "active" do you mean "subscribed"? > > That is the definition of 'subscribed' in the IMAP specification, yes. > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA "You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate." Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
