#2897: message counts in mailbox view all zero (IMAP, courier) Comment (by sideshowbarker):
Replying to [comment:15 knuta]: > I'm not arguing that dots should be valid directory separators in the configuration, that's not my point at all. I just wrote the patch this way to make it small and easy to read and understand. I's meant for demonstrating what the problem is and a way for others to verify if their symptoms are due to the same problem, not as a complete fix to be applied as-is :-) I'm the one who originally filed this particular bug, so I'll try to make time to apply the patch and report back about whether it eliminates the symptoms for my case. --Mike I guess I should note that this had become much less of an acute problem for me than it was when I first reported it. The reason being: After initially reporting -- more than a year ago now -- the regression that's the subject of this issue, I also took a little time to pinpoint the exact change that actually introduced it (r5052 -- see http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/2897#comment:1 ). But I lacked the chops to productively try to figure out myself how to fix it, and for a long time after, saw little or no movement being made toward a fix. For the record, with the above comment I'm not trying to place blame -- just saying that's the way things were. And as an open-source coder myself, I fully understand that the project committers have the right to set priority on issues however they choose to, and we as users of their code have the responsibility to try to escalate those issues that we think are important -- and that we also have the option to investigate and code up patches (as knuta has done -- much appreciated) and push them out to others for testing and use, and back upstream if we care to. Anyway, several weeks (or maybe months) after seeing nothing really happening with this issue, I switched to a workaround of sorts: I just set up forwarding of all the mail from the IMAP account/server where I saw the problem to another IMAP account/server that didn't have the problem. So while that worked for me in my case, I realize now it didn't help much in getting this issue fixed. But FWIW, I'm back following this issue again, and going forward, will do whatever I can to help in getting it resolved. -- Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/2897#comment:16>
