Sean Greenslade <[email protected]> writes: >>Could it be done for IMAP? > > Yes, moving between folders on IMAP works fine on K-9.
In general yes. But I have an issue quite often, which I'll try to describe. (everything is about a single IMAP account) see INBOX, and view some message hit delete (which moves it to trash) realize I actually still want the message go back to folder list with upper left select trash see message at top, select it do move/refile/INBOX and get an error: "Cannot copy or move a message which is not synchronized with the server" remember that in k-9, local modifications to folders are not synced automatically, but only as part of doing a full folder sync hit sync, and have it push that message back to the server, remove messages that are local but not longer on server, and get messages deleted with other clients, limited to 100 do the refile again and ahve it work The issues are the user shouldn't have to be aware of whether a message is synced back yet. If it's in the local folder view it should be movable even if the move operation is stacked behind the writeback operation. Or if the message is only in the local view, not synced, it can be moved and the local state deleted, all without writing to the server. I know, this is hard, and ENOPATCH. another way to think of this is that there is the cached information of server folder state, and then local modifications, kind of as a writeback cache. And things that operate on the folder should function on a logical view that is the cache contents, not the pure copy of the server. Put this way, it's still hard :-) local modifications should arguably make it back to the server automatically, perhaps with operations starting right away, perhaps with a delay the idea of writing changes to the server while not fetching updates (because this folder is not asked to be synced) is intrinisically difficult, as it's a sort of partial sync with messy semantics. But it seems doable to write messages that are added, separately from getting a list of server messages and fetching those we don't have and deleting those that are no longer there. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "K-9 Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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