On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 05:41, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 09:16 +1030, Not Zed wrote: > > I don't understand why the option is called 'show only sub'? Doesn't it > > mean 'only update subscribed'? > > Just a limitation of the way Camel lets you add your own options. > The 'show only sub' option does precisely what 'use_lsub' used to. > > If you have 'use_lsub' and not 'show only sub' enabled, then it uses the > only other sane meaning of 'active folders' that I can think of -- those > are the ones which have new mail arriving. > > This would be a _lot_ better if it were to let me offer the option: > > Check mail in: < INBOX only > > < Subscribed folders > > < All folders > > > The mechanism, however, is sound and is the only sane interpretation of > subscription folders in the case where you are displaying all folders, > surely? > > The RFC says subscription marks 'active' folders. If that doesn't mean > folders I want visible, surely it must mean folders which are active in > that they receive mail. Other mail clients may not implement > check-only-active-folders this way but perhaps that's because other mail > clients don't spent _minutes_ checking all folders for new mail while > the user twiddles his thumbs waiting for the mail he just _clicked_ on.
well, then this is a bug in the way the current imap code works. I don't want to add hacks that we will have to keep around forever even after we've fixed the source of the problem. Jeff -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
