Re: Unread messages un-highlighted

[Jon Tai <jon tgpsolutions com>]

Will this behavior be permanent?  (Will other people need to set this 
option themselves?)  or is it just a temporary thing?  (The unread 
status will be automatically restored after mail is checked the first 
time)  I think it should be automatic, although I'm not sure I 
understand the technical details of it all.  
- Jon


On 2001.12.17 18:27 Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> On 2001.12.17 19:30 Jon Tai wrote:
>> When I used to check for new IMAP mail in balsa-1.2.3, folders with 
>> unread messages would become highlighted.  The same occurs in 
>> balsa-1.3.0, but only for a brief moment, and then all folders 
>> become un-highlighted, indicating no unread messages.  After a long 
>> wait, the highlighting returns.  - Jon
> 
> That may be related to the new IMAP folder scanning. If you have the 
> IMAP scan depth set to 1 (on the Preferences->Startup page), the tree 
> is scanned incrementally as you expand nodes in the mailbox list. The 
> whole tree has to be repopulated, and the `unread' status isn't 
> restored until the next time the mail is checked.
> 
> To return to the old behavior, set the scan depth to a large enough 
> value to descend the entire tree on startup. If you have a 
> high-bandwidth, low-latency connection to your IMAP server, or a 
> small folder tree, you don't need incremental scanning. I do: on a 
> bad day, with 500 ms ping times, it takes Balsa over a minute to set 
> up my IMAP tree, and as often as not it just exits as soon as it's 
> done!
> 
> Peter
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