On Sat, 2002-04-27 at 03:20, Brian wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 01:30, Chris Petersen wrote
> 
> > > Mainly, I leave evolution open on my home machine when I go to work.  At 
> > > work, I ssh in and use pine..  When I get home, evolution will often not 
> > > have noticed many of the changes I've made with pine, including message 
> > > deletions, etc.  These deleted messages still show up in the message lists 
> > > in evolution, but when I click on them I get an error (because they're not 
> > > there anymore).  But that's all that happens.  Shouldn't evolution be 
> > > checking for LACK of messages as well as new ones when it does a mailbox 
> > > update check?  And if the message is gone, shouldn't it remove it from the 
> > > list?   
> 
> Lemme add a big "Me TOO!" to that.  When you login to an imap account
> for the first time, the server has to fetch all the info from the
> server, right?  Number of messages, flags, headers, etc.  Would it be
> more trouble than it's worth to be able to configure Evolution to

Yeah it would.  It would also abuse internet resources.

> resycnhronize the IMAP on certain intervals (say, once an hour
> resynchronize the mailbox completely).  If it were configurable, then
> users over dialup wouldn't have to use it but those who have fast
> connections, who leave a copy of evolution running at home as well as
> work, could.

It would be better to just fix the imap code, assuming the server gives
us enough info.



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