On 26/12/2013 21:14, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm trying out some mail clients with Imap support, and when using > thunderbird > (v24.2, latest version in stable gentoo tree) I encountered several problems > regarding imap server consistency: > > Folders which I already deleted still appear (marked in itallic grey color in > TB's folder list) > > Some folders appear multiple times (e.g. I have a folders like > > Mailinglists > + Gentoo > + users > > where all the mail from this forum goes to. This is consistent with the > filesystem on my Imap server (dovecot). But, additionally, the 'Gentoo' > subfolder appears in top level again (with all its other subfolders as well), > and the 'users' folder appears again in top level a third time. Furthermore, > when I select an unread mail in 'Mailinglists/Gentoo/users', the counter of > unread mail decreases in the top level copy. > > Does anyone have similar experiences?
I also run into those kinds of things with TBird; and there's no right-click option to "resync" things. However, it always comes right if I just leave it alone. So here's my theory: TBird is designed to operate async in the background. A amil server can pump mails into imap folders faster than any client can keep up, so I believe the TBird devs don't even try. Instead, the just let TBird get on with syncing one thing at a time until it's all done. And then the universe returns to normal :-) I can't explain what we see when TBird works, all I can tell you is that if I leave it alone, it always just works out fine (where "leave it alone" is on the order of about an hour or so for my gmail account that goes back 8 years, and that exchange-thingy the IT dept at work still believe has something to do with email...) -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
