[Users] Check every folder every time?

[Milan Obuch]

On Sat, 25 Sep 2021 21:11:36 -0300, Dedeco Balaco via Users
<users at lists.claws-mail.org> wrote:

> Em 22/09/2021 02:14, Milan Obuch escreveu:
> > On Tue, 21 Sep 2021 21:41:39 -0300, Dedeco Balaco via Users
> > <users at lists.claws-mail.org> wrote:

[ snip ]

> >> I configured an IMAP mail account to check every minute for new
> >> messages. It is an important account i have, and i want to mimic
> >> all the settings i use for it in Thunderbird. But there is
> >> something very strange happening: _why Claws Mail is checking for
> >> new messages in every folder_??  I kept looking at it for a few
> >> minutes, just to observe... it always says it is *scouring* each
> >> folder, one by one (if this is not the untranslated word used, the
> >> translator used its correspondent in my language, a very uncommon
> >> word, which i never saw in this context). This enormous amount of
> >> scouring makes no sense for the way i use the folders. The only
> >> folders that should be checked are Inbox and Spam, and eventual
> >> folders where filters move messages to (at the moment, none).
> >>
> >> What can you say?
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> > Regarding scanning for new messages, you can simply make a folder
> > to be ignored in process, it just takes some time to do it - right
> > click on the folder in folder list pane brings you a context menu.
> > There is a lavel 'Properties...', second from bottom. In
> > configuration window opened, approx. one third to bottom, you have
> > checked option labeled 'Scan for new mail'. Uncheck it and this
> > folder will not be checked for new mail messages when corresponding
> > account starts message scanning process. Also, you can apply this
> > setting recursively for all subfolders.
> >
> > That's it. You should decide which folders need to be checked for
> > new messages, you have tool to set Claws Mail to do it the way you
> > want.  
> 
> This "tweak side" is something that really attracts me.    (:
>

That's the case for me as well. And even as a long time Claws user,
there are still areas not yet known to me. That's Claws' power :)

> Indeed, i could change the "new mail checking" for only a few folders,
> which are the ones that makes sense for the account in analysis. But
> there is something i found very counter intuitive: the "apply to
> subfolders" column. First, I tried to use the first button, which is
> always checked, and disabled to changes. After several tries, i
> surprisingly discovered that the other checkboxes below "apply to
> subfolders" label are freely checked, _independently_ of what is in
> their same line. I had not noticed that this dialog is a table with
> several lines and 2 columns.
>

Well, sometimes you need some experience to understand the details. And
yes, 'apply to subfolders' is quite usefull. If you have some folder
hierarchy maintained only manually, then it has its merit to disable
mail scanning for the whole hierarchy. But there are other settings
where this recursive behavior could be considered usefull...

> Now, just one question: for every account i add to Claws, the default
> behaviour will be to check all folders that exist on the IMAP account?
> (IMAP may not always be the case, but it is the only one that i care
> about)
>

Yes, default is 'check all folders' unless you either switch to
'display and check only subscribed to folders' or disable new mail
checking for specified folder(s), eventually with its subfolders as
well.

Regards,
Milan