[sylpheed:33624] Re: can't save message to outbox

Hiroyuki Yamamoto hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp
Tue Feb 9 15:18:30 JST 2010


Hello,

On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 22:32:18 +0100
richard lucassen <mailinglists at lucassen.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:40:21 +0900
> Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp> wrote:
> 
> > > Clicking the button with the "arrow down" symbol (Read next unread
> > > message) while Sylpheed is checking for new messages, gives a
> > > "can't display message". When the check for new messages is
> > > finished, the message is displayed normally.
> > 
> > This error will occur because current Sylpheed cannot handle
> > multiple IMAP commands at the same time. When Sylpheed is checking
> > IMAP folders, it communicates with the IMAP server, but Sylpheed
> > cannot accept other IMAP commands at the time (saving message to
> > sent folder, fetching messages, etc.).
> > 
> > Eventually, this problem should be solved, but there are two
> > workarounds for now:
> > 
> > 1. Create local mailbox and save sent messages there (Account prefs
> > - Advanced - Folder - Put sent messages in)
> > 2. Only send messages on idle state
> 
> Just an additional question Hiroyuki: I have used this very IMAP
> server and complex folder structure for a number of years now using
> Sylpheed 1.06 and these problems never occured when using the old
> Sylpheed-1 version.
> 
> I understand that this is a rather complex matter, but do you have an
> explanation why this occurs using Sylpheed-3? I skipped Sylpheed-2
> (Sylpheed-1 worked too well ;-) so I'm not able to tell you how
> Sylpheed-2 behaved in this situation.

Because Sylpheed 3.0 is multi-threaded. Sylpheed 1.x/2.x was
single-threaded, and IMAP communication blocked the user interface.
You can do nothing while IMAP folders are checked, so it was never a
problem.

-- 
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp>


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