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Bug 148063 - No message flag upon new mail arrival
No message flag upon new mail arrival
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: balsa
Classification: Other
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Balsa Maintainers
Balsa Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-07-21 09:25 UTC by Ariel Tankus
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.5/2.6


Description Ariel Tankus 2004-07-21 09:25:58 UTC 
Select "Display message if new mail has arrived in an open mailbox".

When a new mail arrives, no message is raised.  I saw this in 2.0.17,
and now it is in 2.2.0+yesterday cvs.
Comment 1 Peter Bloomfield 2004-07-21 14:13:09 UTC 
Is that in an imap mailbox, or a local mailbox?
Comment 2 Ariel Tankus 2004-07-21 17:05:44 UTC 
IMAP.
Comment 3 Peter Bloomfield 2004-07-22 04:44:12 UTC 
I believe the issue is one of synchronicity: Balsa's check is based on a change
in the number of new messages before and after a `check' operation.  In IMAP
mailboxes, new mail is detected asynchronously, so the change is always zero. 
We should install instead a system where the mailboxes announce the arrival of
new mail, and the front end monitors all of them.  I'm just not clear how to
implement it!
Comment 4 Peter Bloomfield 2004-07-22 11:47:34 UTC 
I've committed to cvs a change that fixes this issue for me--could you check it out?

Thanks!
Comment 5 Ariel Tankus 2004-07-22 18:47:10 UTC 
Unfortunately, it doesn't fix the problem for me.
At the first time I ran balsa I got the new mail message just fine,
but ever since I cannot reproduce this event (i.e., I no longer see
the new-mail message).
Comment 6 Peter Bloomfield 2004-07-23 19:09:25 UTC 
Cvs now has a more radical change, including a watch on closed mailboxes
(functional only for local mailboxes, for now).  It should notify you more
consistently.

Let us know what you think!
Comment 7 Ariel Tankus 2004-07-24 05:50:06 UTC 
It works for me.

BTW, I'd like to raise an issue related to the placement of the
message window, so I'll open another report on that.  I'm closing the
current bug.