95544 - Should be a way to check non-INBOX folders for new messages

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 95527

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Marc Unangst]

Currently, pressing "Get New Messages" only checks the INBOX folder of each
account for new messages.  New messages in other folders (placed there, for
example, by server-side filtering on an IMAP server, or by concurrent activity
in the account from another IMAP client) are not retreived until the folder is
explicitly selected.  This means that to read all new messages in an account,
it's necessary to iterate through every folder looking for new messages.

Ideally there should be a way of tagging each subscribed folder with a flag,
indicating whether that folder should be polled for its message count when
Mozilla checks for new mail (both on a timeout-based check, or by pressing Get
New Messages).  A fallback position would be to include an account-global or
program-global flag, indicating whether all folders should be polled for their
message counts when Mozilla checks for new mail.

[The fallback position is less desirable because when the user has a large
number of subscribed folders -- i.e., on a server where every Usenet newsgroup
is provided as a shared IMAP folder -- polling every subscribed folder for new
mail might be a lengthly operation.]

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 95527 ***

Comment 2

[scalkins]

Verifying dupe