Evolution does not remind unread emails

[Fontana Nicola]

Il giorno gio, 12/11/2020 alle 13.33 +0100, Michael De Roover ha scritto:
> On Wed, 2020-11-11 at 23:57 +0100, Alex wrote:
> > No idea if xfce4-session or evolution is to blame.
> 
> FWIW, I'm using Evolution 3.30.5-1.1 myself on the Mate desktop on
> Debian. I've just attempted to kill the session while Evolution is
> still running (sudo systemctl restart lightdm), while having marked
> some emails in this thread as read (by reading them of course). After
> logging in again, it seems that the emails do remain read.
> 
> I do not think that sessions are related. Normally when marking an
> email read in the mail client, the server should be informed
> immediately about the change. This sounds to me as if this
> communication back to the mail server just isn't happening instantly.
> 
> Within Evolution, there is a timer that delays the actual "marking the
> email read" by a few seconds after opening it. Perhaps this timer is
> set to a far longer (perhaps even indefinite?) value? See 
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2012-August/msg00047.html
> . For me this setting seems to be set to 1.5 seconds by default.
> 
> P.S.: Nicola, please do provide package versions, especially for a
> rolling release distro like Arch. They change over time (especially so
> in fast-paced Arch) and are generally unknown to the users of other
> distributions.

I'm having this issue for more than one year now, so the version really
does not matter.

At the beginning I thought it was evolution and I played with various
settings (included the delay you mentioned) without luck. After that I
blamed the email provider and tried different server settings (I use
yandex, so I changed the TLD to yandex.ru, yandex.com, with different
ports and server settings). Then I noticed that closing and reopening
evolution within the same session works, so I thought this is related
to the way evolution is closed by the session manager.

I'm not blaming xfce4-session itself: maybe it is just some old setting
hanging around. Using a rolling distro means your system is up to date
but the home directory can be full of legacy stuff, and maybe some of
that crap is getting in my way.

I hoped that someone already met this issue before. I use filters
heavily and always move emails from IMAP accounts to local folders
before reading them, so maybe this workflow is not so common.

Well, after having thrown away another day I think I will continue to
live on with this issue.

Thank you anyway.

Ciao.
-- 
Nicola