Re: [Bug+Fix] broken mailbox view after moving IMAP folder sideways

Albrecht Dreß <[email protected]> Sun, 17 Mar 2019 17:59:36 +0100

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Hi Peter!

Am 16.03.19 21:50 schrieb(en) Peter Bloomfield:
> Well, in case Balsa *has* such a bandwidth-challenged user: the attached patch finds the nearest common ancestor, and scans from there. It also has some NULL guards that seem to be needed. I've tested it with a toy folder tree on a gmail server. What do you think?

It works for me, and the change to src/main-window.c (?) re-opening the shifted folder is really nice.

However, for my ISP's connection the difference in data transmitted when moving a folder from “INBOX/Test 1/Test a” to ”INBOX/Test 2/Test a” is a total of 15 bytes sent and 238 bytes received (after decryption).

To be honest, I wonder if this really justifies the extra complexity of the code, in particular as this is an operation which will typically be performed rarely.  As a comparison, the login, starttls and authentication process sends 115 and receives 651 bytes, and reading the envelope of a single message item sends 85 and receives 547…

>> Actually, this patch has been a byproduct of a larger change I'm preparing, which addresses subscription management and choosing the folder for renaming.  As to simplify life, I also re-scan the server structure instead of relying on the cached data.  I will re-think this approach…
> 
> Looking forward to that!

…which has been delayed by real-life work and a flu, I hope I can prepare a proposal next week…

Cheers,
Albrecht.

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