81303 - add option to download all new mail msg bodies in all offline folders

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Backend, enhancement)

Description

[Alec Flett]

Now that I'm starting to use the new offline features, I'm finding one key
feature that would be incredibly useful: The ability to download all "New"
messages, regardless of what folder it is in.

For example, this allows me to connect to the internet, start up Mail/News, and
say "Download new messages" - mozilla would connect to the server, get all new
messages, run the filters, and then in every folder that has a new message
(after the filters) it would download all the new messages...

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

Future...I agree this would be useful, but I don't think I have time to add new
features at this time.

Comment 2

[laurel]

We did have it originally spec'd to be able to select an account/all its
folders, but that got shot down.  There's an existing bug for that - bug 79186.

Comment 3

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

I think, this is a dup of bug 18266.

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

it's not a dup of bug 18266 - this is about downloading offline msg bodies -> enh

Comment 5

[grylchan]

*** Bug 147427 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Aleksey Nogin]

I am not quite sure what this bug is about - is it asking for an "autosync"
feature? If yes, then the summary could use the word "automatically". If not,
then bug 147427 is not really a dup.

P.S. I would *really* love to have an autosync feature - what usually happens is
that when I need to go somewhere, I'd take the laptop and go and only later, I
realize that I never sync'ed for offline. Only when I am specifically planning
to read my mail offline, I remember to sync. I would really love to be able to
know that my mail is always available locally and never have to worry about it.

I would imagine that people with flakey net connections would appreciate such
feature as well.

Comment 7

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 199991 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Oliver Fischer]

Is it possible that the Windows version of Mozilla 1.3.1 does it already. At
least  I get the impression, that the version on my Windows PC does it (IMHO).

Comment 9

[Alec Flett]

No; it downloads headers, but not bodies.

Comment 10

[timeless]

actually i'm fairly certain bayesian downloads the bodies and that they're just
not kept :-)

Comment 11

[David :Bienvenu]

No, actually, it will save the bodies when it downloads them for bayesian
filters if you have the folder configured for offline use.

Comment 13

[Ilari Halminen]

Well, now it do not load even headers for new messages, except INBOX. (If using IMAP)
Version info:
Käyttäjäagentti: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0 SeaMonkey/2.25
Koosteen tunniste: 20140318183706