Re: [Mutt] #2897: message counts in mailbox view all zero (IMAP,
#2897: message counts in mailbox view all zero (IMAP, courier)
Comment (by sideshowbarker):
Replying to [comment:15 knuta]:
> I'm not arguing that dots should be valid directory separators in the
configuration, that's not my point at all. I just wrote the patch this way
to make it small and easy to read and understand. I's meant for
demonstrating what the problem is and a way for others to verify if their
symptoms are due to the same problem, not as a complete fix to be applied
as-is :-)
I'm the one who originally filed this particular bug, so I'll try to make
time to apply the patch and report back about whether it eliminates the
symptoms for my case.
--Mike
I guess I should note that this had become much less of an acute problem
for me than it was when I first reported it. The reason being: After
initially reporting -- more than a year ago now -- the regression that's
the subject of this issue, I also took a little time to pinpoint the exact
change that actually introduced it (r5052 -- see
http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/2897#comment:1 ). But I lacked the chops
to productively try to figure out myself how to fix it, and for a long
time after, saw little or no movement being made toward a fix.
For the record, with the above comment I'm not trying to place blame --
just saying that's the way things were. And as an open-source coder
myself, I fully understand that the project committers have the right to
set priority on issues however they choose to, and we as users of their
code have the responsibility to try to escalate those issues that we think
are important -- and that we also have the option to investigate and code
up patches (as knuta has done -- much appreciated) and push them out to
others for testing and use, and back upstream if we care to.
Anyway, several weeks (or maybe months) after seeing nothing really
happening with this issue, I switched to a workaround of sorts: I just set
up forwarding of all the mail from the IMAP account/server where I saw the
problem to another IMAP account/server that didn't have the problem. So
while that worked for me in my case, I realize now it didn't help much in
getting this issue fixed. But FWIW, I'm back following this issue again,
and going forward, will do whatever I can to help in getting it resolved.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/2897#comment:16>