On Mon, 2015-07-13 at 23:03 -0700, Nybbles 2 Bytes wrote: > get but no programmer of any significant ability would write it that > way. It would be written something like: When the read status in a > folder changes, change the count variable for that folder.
"when the read status in a folder changes" - there is no such thing. You know because you poll. IDLE is a per-folder operation, so you would need to IDLE on every folder. That does not scale well. At least this is what I believe, unless something has been added to IMAP at some point [which would be nice, but I am unaware of it]. > be some time to initially set all the counts but that's a one time > thing and unless you have 100's of 1000's of folders and emails, > very unlikely o be all that noticeable. Having 100s of folders and thousands of messages would be the normal situation in a modern mail account. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
