> On Apr 29, 2022, at 7:28 AM, Randall Gellens <mailm...@randy.pensive.org> > wrote: > > On 28 Apr 2022, at 20:02, Bill Cole wrote: > >> On 2022-04-28 at 18:03:47 UTC-0400 (Thu, 28 Apr 2022 15:03:47 -0700) >> Randall Gellens <mailmate@lists.freron.com> >> is rumored to have said: >> >>> This is what I do for all my archive and auto-delete functions, but it >>> seems to me that the rules in the smart mailbox don't always fire until I >>> click on the mailbox to view it, a bit like Schrödinger's mailbox. I also >>> find this behavior in general, e.g., I see a new message arrive in my main >>> Inbox that should have been moved by a rule to a different mailbox, but >>> instead it sits in my Inbox for hours (maybe longer) but if I click on the >>> mailbox to which it should have been moved, there it is and it's gone when >>> I switch back to the Inbox. It seems that, for whatever reason, rules don't >>> always trigger or at least the effect of them running isn't always visible. >>> But other times they do seem to run automatically. >> >> This is an IMAP artifact. You don't see the message in the new location >> until you resynch the new location. > > You're saying that MailMate doesn't resync a mailbox after it moves a > message? And furthermore, ignores IDLE, which my server supports and which MM > issues? Even if that was the case (which seems very hard to believe), then > how is that the rules do work as intended at other times?
I always just thought it was a minor UI glitch. When it happens to me, the moved message will sometimes be there for quite awhile- but if I switch to another mailbox and back quickly, it disappears as expected. _______________________________________________ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
