206446 - Bayesian filter should not prevent user from reading mail

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Filters, defect)

Description

[timeless]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030519
Bayesian Enabled
IMAP Mail Server: 
* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 LOGIN-REFERRALS STARTTLS AUTH=LOGIN]
localhost.localdomain IMAP4rev1 2001.315rh at Tue, 20 May 2003 11:36:20 -0400 (EDT)
INBOX Total: 148776

I haven't used mozilla mail in over a month (I was using BeOS and BeZilla Mail
would crash w/ OOM), time is measured by the fact that bugzilla discarded my
login cookie.

It took 20mins for mozilla mail to download my imap message headers
(started around 10:57am, ended around 11:17am).

I would expect (1) that after I got my headers i could start reading email.
Instead as soon as it finished downloading the headers my thread view blanked
and I am now forced to wait for bayesian to finish processing my mail.

If I can't start reading all of my mail, then i'd at least like to be able to
(2) read the emails for which bayesian has downloaded the message bodies while
it downloads the rest.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

Actually, it doesn't, normally. I redid the bayesian filter to fetch the
messages one at a time, which should allow you to read other messages while the
bayesian filter is downloading messages.  I don't know why your thread pane
blanked out, unless it's because your imap server rolled IMAP Uid validity, or
your .msf file was missing, in which case we would blank out the thread pane
until we'd finished downloading headers (but not message bodies, I don't think...)

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Timeless, is this bug still a problem for you?

Comment 3

[QA timeless]

david: of course my msf was missing.

mike: well, um, testing now (this may take a while), unfortunately i don't have
a junkmail db here so i'm not sure how useful it'll be...

Comment 4

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

QA timeless in comment #3
> david: of course my msf was missing.
> 
> mike: well, um, testing now (this may take a while), unfortunately i don't have
> a junkmail db here so i'm not sure how useful it'll be...

timeless - problem gone?

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

David, would you expect this problem to be gone?

Comment 7

[David :Bienvenu]

Timeless's particular problem, no, but I think the bug subject is much more general than the actual problem encountered, which had to do with a missing .msf file and a rather huge folder, as I understand it.

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

bienvenu...

>>(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #6)
>> David, would you expect this problem to be gone?
>(In reply to David :Bienvenu from comment #7)
> Timeless's particular problem, no, but I think the bug subject is much more
> general than the actual problem encountered, which had to do with a missing
> .msf file and a rather huge folder, as I understand it.

so comment 1. But in that case I don't see how you solve the inability to read mail.

Comment 9

[David :Bienvenu]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #8)
> bienvenu...
> 
> >>(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #6)
> >> David, would you expect this problem to be gone?
> >(In reply to David :Bienvenu from comment #7)
> > Timeless's particular problem, no, but I think the bug subject is much more
> > general than the actual problem encountered, which had to do with a missing
> > .msf file and a rather huge folder, as I understand it.
> 
> so comment 1. But in that case I don't see how you solve the inability to
> read mail.

I changed the way we do header download when there are a lot of headers we don't have - now we fetch the newest 100 (or 200, I don't remember), and then run a url to fetch the next batch. If the user clicks on a message, it will get downloaded when the next batch is finished, so now you can read messages while downloading a large number of headers.

Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM per comment 9