Re: Problems with public folders

[Misu Moldovan <dumol home ro>]

Pawel Salek wrote:
> On 12/16/2004 04:41:40 PM, Misu Moldovan wrote:

[snip]

> > I don't know how Mozilla/Thunderbird mark them as read, although the
> > folders are read-only. But currently I'm keeping both Balsa and
>
> Are these flags persistent or get reset next time you start Mozilla?  
> The fact is, Mozilla uses quite extentisive client side mapping and I  
> can imagine they could manage client-side flag maps. Balsa can mark  
> messages as read for a session - implementing more extensive  
> client-side caching might be worth it but it would require much more  
> effort, too.

The flags are persistent, they don't reset after closing Thunderbird. 
More so, when Thunderbird marks a message as read in a read-only public 
folder Balsa will see it as read sooner or later (although it sometimes 
requires reopening that public folder).


> > Thunderbird opened all the time and I use Balsa for regular mails and
> > Thunderbird for reading mail in public folders. And somehow the
> > messages that show up as read in Thunderbird show up as read in Balsa
> > too,
>
>
> That's really interesting! Even if the folders are read-only?

Indeed. The folders are read-only. I have no idea where the read flag is 
stored for a read-only public folder, but I tend to believe is somewhere 
on the server-side, as Thunderbird marks messages as read on a public 
folder and Balsa and Evo see that messages are marked as read, although 
as said earlier, in Balsa sometimes I need to close and reopen the 
public folder.


> > However, I cannot currently figure out how to configure Balsa to
> > behave properly in regards to public folders.
>
>
> Currently, you cannot: the code has to be amended. One has to discuss  
> desired behavior to decide what is the expected balsa behavior.

I've been working intensively with public folders for the last year or 
so, I would gladly present the perspective of users in regards to public 
folders on IMAP servers as this is a hot subject among my colleagues and 
we use a variety of email clients (from most used to least used: 
Thunderbird, Evolution, Mozilla, Outlook, Balsa).


> Pawel

Sorry for the delay, I got your reply just yesterday (probably the 
server which manages my free email address is to blame).

--
Mişu (from Thunderbird this time, because Balsa has some issues with 
rewrapping a reply to a reply).