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On 2008-12-28T11:45:19+00:00 Emitrax wrote:

It's a stupid thing really, but I find it annoying.

When I check for updates and I have no connection the little red-road-
sign comes up in the icon (which is gray), but when I update again with
connection, the icon change color like expected if I have new emails,
but the little red-road-sign doesn't disappear like I expect.

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On 2009-09-04T04:49:59+00:00 Samuli Suominen wrote:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=272953

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On 2009-10-18T23:59:07+00:00 Rob86 wrote:

I also find this bug annoying. I hope it gets fixed. It seems like a
minor thing to change, but I couldn't do it myself.

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On 2009-10-19T00:06:13+00:00 Bjt23 wrote:

Please don't spam with "me too" messages.

It's not at all easy to fix, otherwise I would've done it already.

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On 2009-11-21T21:32:48+00:00 Bjt23 wrote:

*** Bug 6012 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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On 2010-01-14T01:21:10+00:00 Bjt23 wrote:

*** Bug 6155 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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On 2010-03-25T00:33:21+00:00 Aky wrote:

actually i find it very easy to get rid of the 'red-road-sign' in mailwatcher's 
panel icon; depending on what you want you need.. either:
1) uncheck the 'Show log status in icon' checkmark from mailchecker's 
Properties/View Log window and the 'red-road-sign' won't show any longer on 
errors
or,
2) if you'd still like to get feedback on netowrk and/or mailserver issues just 
leave that checked and when the 'red-road-sign' shows open the same afore 
mentioned log window (Properties/View Log) and the 'red-road-sign' will poof

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On 2011-01-09T16:01:32+00:00 Corentin Perard wrote:

*** Bug 7072 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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On 2013-12-04T22:53:57+00:00 Sucan wrote:

*** Bug 7697 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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On 2013-12-04T23:18:04+00:00 Sucan wrote:

*** Bug 10369 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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On 2013-12-04T23:39:11+00:00 Sucan wrote:

*** Bug 9093 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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On 2013-12-05T14:19:10+00:00 Sucan wrote:

*** Bug 9832 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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On 2013-12-05T14:24:27+00:00 Sucan wrote:

*** Bug 10065 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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On 2013-12-12T18:42:25+00:00 Sucan wrote:

Error/warning indicating is universal mechanism and network connection
is not the only reason why the indicator icon is showed. This icon stays
showed until the user views the log because errors/warning is something
that user should be interested in. If he is not interested he can
disable indicating in View Log window.

In one of the duplicate reports someone said that internet connection
should be checked before indicating error. As far as I know there is not
platform independent way how to check if network connection is
available. And if it was we should have to know if network is not
available because user wants it to be so or not (i.e. if he knows about
it or not).

I think the easiest solution is to introduce two configurable threshold
values. First for number of subsequent checks in which error/warning
occurs and after which the indicator icon is displayed. Second for the
number of subsequent checks in which no error/warning occurs and after
which the pending error/warning event is cleared and indicator icon is
hidden.

If someone has some objections let me know.

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On 2013-12-13T14:24:47+00:00 Mihail wrote:

I think that applet error indication should just say: "I do/don't know
current state of all your mail boxes". So, if last check of all mail
boxes was successful, error indication may be turned off. This is the
way many monitoring systems work.

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On 2013-12-13T15:25:41+00:00 Sucan wrote:

Mihail, thanks for the reply. Yes, it seems that hiding error icon after
the first successful check would be sufficient.

But now I have realized that mailwatch plugin design imply that there is
nothing as "check of all mailboxes" (all in the same time). Each mailbox
has its own thread and is checked independently from others. Then we can
say that error indication icon may be hidden after the last check from
the sequence of successful checks of all mailboxes starting with the
first mailbox. If I implement it like that, it would mean that if user
has two mailboxes, one with checking interval 2 minutes and one with the
60 minute interval, in the worst case it will take almost 58 minutes
(and 28 successful checks of 2-minute mailbox) until error icon
disappears.

The better solution would be a "distributed" version of this mechanism.
Error/warning should be cleared only by the next successful check of the
mailbox which caused it. The error icon would be hidden only if there is
no mailbox with error status and showed otherwise.

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On 2013-12-13T15:51:14+00:00 Mihail wrote:

Yes, that would be great! For example, after every mail check in a
thread we could set mail box' "local status" and then check all those
"local statuses" to see if any mail box is under error condition.

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On 2013-12-13T16:33:55+00:00 Photon wrote:

Thumbs up for this solution!

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On 2013-12-13T17:36:35+00:00 Sucan wrote:

It will take some time while I get used to the implementation of logging
functionality of the plugin (as a new maintainer) to be able to write
patch of satisfactory quality. But I think that it will soon be in the
master branch of the source tree and this bug closed once and for all.

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On 2013-12-27T16:08:38+00:00 Sucan wrote:

After hours of source code reviewing I have realized that I don't know
how to implement the fix without ugly hacks (and I don't have a time and
motivation for a major redesign of the plugin). So this bug could be
fixed if someone will provide a clean solution or some other maintainer
will push some fix to the git repository.

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** Changed in: xfce4-mailwatch-plugin
       Status: Unknown => Confirmed

** Changed in: xfce4-mailwatch-plugin
   Importance: Unknown => Low

** Bug watch added: Gentoo Bugzilla #272953
   https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=272953

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