342294 - parent folder with only saved searches shows twisty in download for offline folder picker

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[David :Bienvenu]

They shouldn't appear in the dialog - or at least, we shouldn't try to sync them because that generates a warning from the server.

Comment 1

[Matt Dudziak]

(In reply to comment #0)
> They shouldn't appear in the dialog - or at least, we shouldn't try to sync
> them because that generates a warning from the server.
> 

Actually, it would be very cool if the messages returned by a saved search could be downloaded for offline use, just downloaded in their normal location. This way I can create a saved search for my most important mail, tell Thunderbird to download it for offline use, and have access to those important messages offline without having to download every message in the various mailboxes.

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

yes, that would be neat - it would be a bit tricky to implement. We would need to basically iterate over all the headers in the saved search and download the imap/news ones for offline use. We'd have to group them by folder as well before downloading, which we do for other operations already. This would be easy if the saved search was actually open in the ui, but it won't necessarily be. 

Users might be confused since the contents of saved searches can change a lot over time, depending on the saved search. I have a saved search that shows me my unread messages in all my inboxes and some of my filter targets. But as I read messages, the contents of the saved search go away if I click away and back to the saved search. I suppose if the saved search was configured for offline use, we'd save each message as the user read it...that might be a real easy first step, to check the virtual folder flag before deciding to save a message while reading it (do we do that already?)

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

David do you still see this?

WFM I don't see any virtual folders. file|dlsync|... nor in accounts.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1a2pre) Gecko/2008072800 Shredder/3.0a2pre

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

I don't see them in the dialog now, but my IMAP inbox, which only has a saved search as a sub-folder, shows up with a + twisty which doesn't do anything, in the select folders dialog for offline sync.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I see that too

Comment 6

[ovidiu]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.2pre) Gecko/2008072418 Thunderbird/3.0a2 ID:2008072418

see it too. 

(fwiw, now that this works, bumped into another thing and filed Bug 450680 )

Comment 7

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Linux/trunk too.