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Bug 329735 - Folders that are not marked for offline operation are being shown offline.
Folders that are not marked for offline operation are being shown offline.
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.8.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks: 327343
 
 
Reported: 2006-02-03 07:53 UTC by Vandana
Modified: 2012-08-31 17:04 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.11/2.12


Description Vandana 2006-02-03 07:53:33 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
In the exchange account , a folder that is not marked for offline operation , is
displayed  when you go offline and try to view its contsnts.

Steps to reproduce:
1.right click on an exchange account folder , and mark for offline use.
2. Now go offline , try viewing the contents of the folder . Later , unmark the
"mark for offline" box
3. Go online , again go offline. try viewing the contents of the folder in question


Actual results:
The contents of the folder are displayed

Expected results:
the contents of the folder should not be displayed

Does this happen every time?
Yes

Other information:
Comment 1 Poornima 2006-03-03 08:52:40 UTC 
Reproducible in my machine as well.
Comment 2 Sushma Rai 2006-03-03 09:29:54 UTC 
vandana, is this specific to mail folders or book/cal folders also?
Comment 3 Vandana 2006-06-23 11:09:32 UTC 
This is happening with imap folders too.  Moving this to evolution...
Comment 4 Veerapuram Varadhan 2006-06-23 16:32:39 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> 2. Now go offline , try viewing the contents of the folder . Later , unmark the
> "mark for offline" box
This would have saved all the mails in that box for offline use.

> 3. Go online , again go offline. try viewing the contents of the folder in
> question
> 
> 
> Actual results:
> The contents of the folder are displayed
Yes, because, once a folder is synced for offline use, Evolution will not delete, already, synced messages.  So, even if you go online and remove the "mark for offline" option, those messages will be accessible in offline.
> 
> Expected results:
> the contents of the folder should not be displayed
> 
IMO, the contents of the "new messages" in the folder that are received after removing "mark for offline" option, shouldn't be displayed.

@Vandana: Can you verify whether ^^^ happens?  If so, I would mark this bug as NOT A BUG.
Comment 5 Vandana 2006-06-28 05:45:57 UTC 
Even after removing  "mark for offline" option, the messages that are received get displayed in  offline mode...
Comment 6 Matthew Barnes 2008-03-11 00:27:38 UTC 
Bumping version to a stable release.
Comment 7 Milan Crha 2012-08-31 17:04:02 UTC 
NotABug, from my point of view. Even you do not have downloaded whole folder, you can access at least messages you already viewed, rather than see all or nothing. I believe that's a plus. The option in account preferences (or on the folder itself) is there to predownload messages for offline, not to disable folder in offline completely. Also, in IMAP, the folder records changes and applies them when you go online, thus you can add new messages into any IMAP folder in offline, and when you connect to the server the message is uploaded as well.