GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 201718
incremental addition of new mail in send-receive
Last modified: 2021-05-19 11:36:50 UTC
Currently, incoming e-mail is only added to the inbox once you click on the OK button in the "Get Mail" dialog. This is not a problem when you've only got 10 e-mails in your inbox, but when you've got a very large number of mails, you have to wait until evolution has downloaded ALL of them before you can start reading them. IMHO, you should be able to read already downloaded messages while evolution is still downloading. This follows the behavior of Outlook btw.
There is no 'ok' button anymore so this isnt so relevant. However mail should be added during updates, but is a little tricky to do 'cause of freeze depth/etc.
Retitling for (hopefully) greater clarity.
*** bug 229721 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This can't be done until etable is made to run at a decent pace, we tried it at some point in the past, and it was too slow and jerky to be usable, and slowed down everything to boot.
Is this still an issue/will this get resolved?
this bug is presumably about POP3, a related one is bug 222499 about IMAP headers.
*** Bug 222499 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 336705 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
A possible short-term implementation is mentioned in bug 336705: Display incrementally per account, rather than incrementally per every single mail. However, with sorting by date, this possibly could result in mails jumping around as new mails get in every split second... Even worse with sorting by anything else (like subject) or Threading enabled.
(In reply to comment #9) > A possible short-term implementation is mentioned in bug 336705: Display > incrementally per account, rather than incrementally per every single mail. This sounds ideal. > However, with sorting by date, this possibly could result in mails jumping > around as new mails get in every split second... Even worse with sorting by > anything else (like subject) or Threading enabled. True, but the alternative would be "do nothing".
(In reply to comment #10) > True, but the alternative would be "do nothing". Don't get me wrong, I'm not opposing. :) I merely thought out loud, about possible results and implications. Besides, no one is forced to use it, while mail still is being received. The general user probably will wait anyway, till that send/receive dialog vanishes.
> Don't get me wrong, I'm not opposing. :) Oh good :) > I merely thought out loud, about possible results and implications. Besides, no > one is forced to use it, while mail still is being received. The general user > probably will wait anyway, till that send/receive dialog vanishes. (But I don't think I have any dialog. When I start evolution, it checks my mail (or seems to). I can click Send/Receive to get the progress of the downloads though.) I have a few mail accounts, including one that gets tons of mail, and one that gets a lot less. I would like to deal with the second account's mail while my first account's mail is being downloaded.
*** Bug 404256 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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