Karl Pearson wrote: > > On Thu, March 18, 2010 2:58 am, Tomas Kuliavas wrote: >> Karl Pearson wrote: >>> On Wed, March 17, 2010 1:55 pm, Tomas Kuliavas wrote: >>>> Karl Pearson wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I've emailed a couple times, with the most recent just a week or so >>>>> ago about Squirrelmail not reporting the correct number of emails >>>>> left unread in all my folders. >>>>> >>>>> I solved it by un-checking this option under Folders: >>>>> >>>>> Enable Cumulative Unread Message Notification: >>>>> >>>>> I guess I don't know what that means, so clicked it years ago when >>>>> I first started using SQM. Anyone want to fill my brain up with >>>>> knowledge? It's pretty much empty right now, which is obvious to >>>>> most. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I though that you talked about invalid count reported by newmail >>>> plugin. Left listing counts are different. >>>> >>>> Do you have some folders that have similar names? Could you check >>>> which folders report invalid unread/total counts or make a >>>> spreadsheet with folder names, unread/total counts reported by IMAP >>>> STATUS and unread/total counts reported on left folder listing? >>>> >>>> Cumulative count should increase unread/total email counters, if >>>> folder has collapsed subfolders and those subfolders have unread >>>> emails. I suspect that counter can be incorrectly increased, if >>>> folder has collapsed subfolders and there are similar folders. >>> >>> Unchecking the Cumluative setting didn't solve it after all, so I'm >>> seeing the count creep up after just a couple days. >>> >>> I've been using IMAP-based email solutions on my own email server for >>> over 15 years, and a cursory check (ls -R|wc -l) shows I have 8540 >>> separate folders (lines; some aren't folders). I've found 15 duplicate >>> names, so am going through and either combining them, or renaming them, >>> whichever is appropriate. >>> >>> If renaming some of the folders (none of the duplicates were in the >>> same location) doesn't solve it, I'm wondering if a buffer overrun >>> might be the problem with that many folders. >>> >>> I wrote a script some time ago that goes through a folder (from the >>> commandline) and marks all messages as having been opened (Read). I do >>> that on older folders because I suspected at the time of writing it >>> that Alpine and Squirrelmail were 'fighting' over how to actually mark >>> a message as having been read. From what I'm learning, that's a >>> function of Dovecot, right? The email client sends an IMAP command and >>> Dovecot marks the message as opened/read, right? >>> >>> But I still have the question as why using the Squirrelmail 'Search' >>> feature would cause the unread count to be reset to 0 (even when there >>> are some unread emails). >>> >>> I'm running the MarkEmailRead.sh script against some folders and it >>> takes some time, so I think I'll head to bed and let it finish... >>> >> Which counters are increasing? You have lots of folders, but you still >> notice increased counts. SquirrelMail has mini plugin, which can show >> only folders with unread emails. > > The only count that's inaccurate is the one that generates the > <title>NN New Messages</title> > tag that displays in the Firefox Tab and the Window's Caption. There are > no message count plugins. > Could you go to SquirrelMail Options -> NewMail Options and make sure that "Count only messages that are RECENT:" option is not checked. -- Tomas -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Message-Count-Update-%28Solution-Bug%29-tp27936550p27948661.html Sent from the squirrelmail-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ----- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
