Using dovecot with RoundCubeMail - where is the information for new mail in (blue coloured) directories?

[Philip Rhoades]

Peter,


On 2020-12-20 19:33, Peter wrote:
> Am 19.12.20 um 15:53 schrieb David Morsberger:
>> Phil,
>> 
>> I looked around and this is deep in the Roundcube service side code. 
>> It is detecting a new message in a folder since the last time you 
>> viewed the contents of the folder.
>> 
>> I see has the folder list items are changed through css and how the 
>> server side code is receiving the request to check for recent. It get 
>> complicated after that. I cannot determine if it is keep state in 
>> roundcube or making a call to the IMAP provider. I am leaning to 
>> roundcube state.
> 
> The server would be hard pressed: Several users may idle in the same
> mailbox. If a message is new, then for whom exactly?
> 
> Thunderbird has a css selector to match "newMessages" too: It can be
> used from userChrome.css to highlight folders, where there are
> messages, that have not been there, when the folder was last opened.


It is not even "last opened" - the blue highlighting disappears with 
time (not sure how long) - even if the folder is not touched - and it 
certainly disappears if RCM is closed and opened again . .


> It wont ever match the folder that is currently opened.


Not sure what you mean by that?


> This propertry
> is pure client side state by definition.


I guess that is what it seems to look like to me as well - but what does 
that mean for what I am trying to do? - ie reset the blue folder 
highlight arbitrarily?

Thanks,

Phil.


>>> On Dec 19, 2020, at 12:19 AM, Philip Rhoades <phil at pricom.com.au 
>>> <mailto:phil at pricom.com.au>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> David,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 2020-12-19 00:08, David Morsberger wrote:
>>>> Phil,
>>>> Are you trying to find out how dovecot marks emails as unread?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> No - I am trying to work out how New Unread Mails are highlighted in 
>>> blue - see the attached partial screen capture - the two 
>>> blue-highlighted RCM folders are highlighted in blue AND are also in 
>>> bold - folders with OLD but UNREAD mails are just in bold.
>>> 
>>> I want to create a script or find out some way of marking a folder 
>>> blue according to the datestamp of the most recent mail in the 
>>> folder.
>>> 
>>> Does that make sense?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Phil.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Assuming you are using maildir format, it appears to be encoded as
>>>> flags in the email filename on disk.
>>>> It’s briefly covered in 'Filename examples'
>>>> https://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir
>>>> And in 'What can I put in info?'
>>>> https://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html
>>>>> On Dec 17, 2020, at 7:12 PM, Philip Rhoades <phil at pricom.com.au>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Benny,
>>>>> On 2020-12-18 09:28, Benny Pedersen wrote:
>>>>> Philip Rhoades skrev den 2020-12-17 22:14:
>>>>> Every few years I try to work this problem out
>>>>> User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.4-rc1
>>>>> please upgrade first
>>>> It is a long-standing problem and upgrading RCM is not a solution . 
>>>> .
>>>>>> - occasionally I would
>>>>>> like to re-mark a dir as having new mail so that the dir shows up
>>>>>> as
>>>>>> blue-coloured in RCM.
>>>>> please dont modify mails outside of imap protocol,
>>>> Then how do I do what I want with IMAP?
>>>>> if you use
>>>>> roundcube it will not be needed to mangle shell accounts
>>>> That comment doesn't make sense . .
>>>>>> Every time I Google in vain and then have a go
>>>>>> at working it out myself
>>>>> if google have no answer to it, its simple not supported
>>>> Quite frequently not true . .
>>>>>> but the only thing I can see is that there is
>>>>>> a change in the appropriate dir dovecot.index.log file after
>>>>>> having
>>>>>> the blue dir clicked on
>>>>> dont mangle files outside of imap protocol
>>>> You already said that - what is your solution then?
>>>>>> (and the colour of the dir name changes back
>>>>>> to black) - so is the information stored somewhere in RCM itself?
>>>>> no
>>>> OK, overall not a very helpful response . . but thanks anyway.
>>>> P.
>>>> --
>>>> Philip Rhoades
>>>> PO Box 896
>>>> Cowra  NSW  2794
>>>> Australia
>>>> E-mail:  phil at pricom.com.au
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Philip Rhoades
>>> 
>>> PO Box 896
>>> Cowra  NSW  2794
>>> Australia
>>> E-mail: phil at pricom.com.au 
>>> <mailto:phil at pricom.com.au><RoundCubeMail_NewUnreadMail.png>
>> 

-- 
Philip Rhoades

PO Box 896
Cowra  NSW  2794
Australia
E-mail:  phil at pricom.com.au