209813 - unread messages in folders are only shown when I click on the folder

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[John Brahy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529

I feel that each of the folders on my imap account should be checked when
checking mail. I use procmail on the server and my client doesn't do much of the
filtering.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. subscribe to an imap email account
2. setup procmail to filter messages on the server
3. wait and you will instantly miss messages :-)

Actual Results:  
I missed incoming messages

Expected Results:  
I think when the mail client is checking messages, we should be able to choose
wether or not it will recurse into the other folders.

Comment 1

[Mikael Parknert]

if you right-click a folder, select properties, you
can check the 'Check this folder for new messages'

Comment 2

[John Brahy]

ok, I have over 400 folders so the solution is to go to each folder and right
click on it then click "check this folder for new messages", then click the
"offline messages tab" and then click "select this folder for offline use". 
it's taking me a long time. It would be ___REALLY___ nice to set all the folders
at once....

Comment 3

[John Brahy]

ok, I have over 400 folders so the solution is to go to each folder and right
click on it then click "check this folder for new messages", then click the
"offline messages tab" and then click "select this folder for offline use". 
it's taking me a long time. It would be ___REALLY___ nice to set all the folders
at once....

Comment 4

[Mikael Parknert]

// This option tells Mozilla to check for IMAP folders other than INBOX
// Currently Mozilla just checks INBOX for new mails.
user_pref("mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new", true);

stop mozilla, add this to prefs.js (in your profile folder),.'
try again

Comment 5

[John Brahy]

ok, I did that but it still tries to check the folders... which aren't
selectable. Is there a way to select all files except folders? 

Comment 6

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified.