808711 - [email/activesync] Choose a more appropriate date range for syncing messages

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::E-Mail, defect, P1)

Description

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

For ActiveSync accounts, we currently sync the most recent 3 days worth of messages, which is suboptimal for people who receive a ton of email (and also for people who receive very little email). The Android app gets an estimate of how many messages you'd get for various sync ranges and picks an appropriate range. We should do this too.

This is especially important for dogfooding, since people using Gmail who get lots of bugmail are having a bad time.

This also has localization implications, since we need to add an option in our sync range settings for "Automatically pick a good range".

Comment 1

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

A complication: Gmail never returns more than 25 for GetItemEstimate, so we can't use this for Gmail. However, Gmail does give us messages in descending date order (or so it seems), so maybe we just need to have Hotmail and Exchange do the GetItemEstimate approach and have Gmail progressively load the messages into the list.

Comment 2

[Alex Keybl [:akeybl]]

Milestoning for C2 (deadline of 12/10), as this meets the criteria of "remaining P1 bugs not already milestoned for C1".

Comment 3

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

Checked in: https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/pull/6412
            https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia-email-libs-and-more/pull/78

Comment 4

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

Message sent to dev-gaia discussing this: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.gaia/browse_thread/thread/11b35d94e42eca9f

Comment 5

[Nick Davidson]

verified on Unagi build 20121231070201 When you add new email to device sync is set to automatic by default.

Comment 6

[Misty Byrd]

This issue is fixed for  device Unagi; build #20130114073222v.1
Yahoo (IMAP) and Hotmail (ActiveSync) are set to Automatic as default upon set up of account.