GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 713449
Subscribe / unsubscribe to folders
Last modified: 2021-07-05 13:26:56 UTC
---- Reported by jim@yorba.org 2013-09-04 11:38:00 -0700 ---- Original Redmine bug id: 7436 Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/7436 Searchable id: yorba-bug-7436 Original author: Jim Nelson Original description: There has been a request for subscribing to and unsubscribing from folders (#3768). Some investigation would be necessary to see how this would work, but the general idea is that Geary would only display and pull email from subscribed folders rather than all folders. Because the subscription flag is stored on the server, all email clients that supported SUBSCRIBE would reflect these choices. Related issues: related to geary - Feature #3768: Create/delete/rename folder (Open) ---- Additional Comments From geary-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-09-04 11:39:00 -0700 ---- ### History #### #1 Updated by Jim Nelson 3 months ago * **Tracker** changed from _Bug_ to _Feature_ --- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-21 20:21 UTC --- This bug was previously known as _bug_ 7436 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7436 Unknown version " in product geary. Setting version to "!unspecified". Unknown milestone "unknown in product geary. Setting to default milestone for this product, "---". Setting qa contact to the default for this product. This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one. Resolution set on an open status. Dropping resolution
Many clients handle this in two ways: Have a per-account pref for determining whether to pay attention to mailbox subscriptions or not, then some UI for displaying a list of all folders, and choosing which should be subscribed to, which also updates the subscriptions on the server. In Geary, we would want to make accounts default to display all mailboxes, regardless of their server subscriptions. Then provide a checkbox/switch in the IMAP settings for each account to toggle that. If disabled, the user can then click a button to choose which folders should be subscribed to. The engine would also need to be updated to support this.
Adding myself to this issue. In our business e-mail environment, the IMAP server exposes 800+ customer specific mailboxes, each of them receiving a vast load of (mostly large) messages per day. In evolution (which is what I use for productive work now) I just have roughly twwo dozens of folders subscribed and visible, mostly my own namespace and a couple of customer mailboxes interesting to me right now. With geary I seem to have access to *all* the mailboxes *all the time*, with drawbacks: In my environment the geary.db for this account has grown to 13GB in size, and I'm practically unable to work with it because switching between folders always takes between 30 and 120 secs of the UI being "frozen" while (looking at the debug output) geary obviously runs SQL statements. Plus, the application also seems permanently busy receiving mails because (of course) there permanently is inbound traffic in one of these folders. Being able to use IMAP subscriptions would greatly ease this problem.
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org. As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately quite limited so not every ticket can get handled). If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent and supported software version, then please follow https://wiki.gnome.org/GettingInTouch/BugReportingGuidelines and create a new ticket at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/-/issues/ Thank you for your understanding and your help.