[vdr] Re: ANNOUNCE: mailbox plugin 0.1.0 for IMAP/POP3 accounts

[Alexander Rieger <lists@seca.inka.de>]

Hi Lars

> I tried the plugin today and it works close to perfect out of the box!
Great.

> > - 'mail list view' to display a list of all mails in a mailbox with
> >  subject, sender and state/flags of every mail.
> Is it possible to list them in the reverse order, i.e. latest mails at the
> top? With > 100 mails in my INBOX it is quite cumbersome to scroll to the
> bottom before viewing a new mail...
<g> As there are several users who want the mails to be displayed in 
reverse order I've put this on my todo list.

> > - Mails encoded in 'quoted-printable' are displayed correctly (tested
> >   at least with german umlauts).
> This is not the case for me. Any ideas?
Are you sure that the mail is in 'quoted-printable'? Is this a 
multi-part mail?

Do you see the quoted-printable characters in the mail-text or do you 
observe 'strange' encodings in the subject or sender line? (The later 
look like '=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gru=DF?=' and are called 'quoted-words' - the 
plugin isn't able to decode them right now).

Please look at the source of the mail with your normal mail reader.

If this is a single-part mail, you should see a line like 
'Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable' in the header of the mail. 
If this is a multipart mail, you should see such a line at the beginning 
of the relevant part.

If a mail(part) uses transfer encoding 'quoted-printable', the plugin 
calls a function 'rfc822_qprint' from c-client to decode the text. But I 
observed cases where a mail is in quoted printable and this method fails 
(by returning 0). In this case the plugin displays the orginal encoded 
text and send a message to the syslog (if you have warning level >=2).

The message sent to syslog looks like: "MailPart::getBodyText() unable 
to convert quoted-printable in MailNum: %ld  PartName: %s!"

Do you get this message line in the syslog when you try to display this 
mail?

For example the faulty mail I received had a html-text appended and the 
header of this part claimed it to be quoted-printable. In this case the 
function 'rfc822_qprint' fails and the html-source will be displayed - 
but in this case the behaviour is at least consistent with the behaviour 
of Mozilla 1.5 which doesn't display this part either :-)


> > - IMAP: when a mail is displayed in the 'mail view', the \Seen flag
> >   for this mail is set automatically (configurable).
> This may be the case, but the display of the mail list view is not updated
> properly.
Just for clarification: When you return from mail-view to mail-list-view 
 the mail has still an 'N' in front of the subject?

Is this 'N' still displayed when you scoll in the list with cursor left 
/ cursor right so that the display of the mail-list will be refreshed? 
Background of the question: The string that is displayed in the 
mail-list-view is constructed every time the Display()-method of the 
OsdItem is called (and not only once when the OsdItem is constructed). 
So I would expect the one character flag indicator to definitely reflect 
the current state.

Please open the mail in the mail-view afterwards again and look in the 
title bar. After the name of the mail-account, the current mail number 
and the total number of mails in the account you see the states of all 
flags in a character sequence like this '[RNFDA]'.

Each of the characters represents one flag of a mail:
R - \Recent
N - not \Seen (I chose this inversion as it's easier to talk
    about new mails than of 'not seen' mails ;)
F - \Flagged
D - \Deleted
A - \Answered

If one of these flags is not set a '_' is displayed instead.

The one character flag indicator in the mail-list is created by 
evaluating the flags in the order from top to down in the list above and 
the first flag that leads to a character is displayed.

>>- IMAP/POP3: set \Deleted flag for mails in the "mail list view" and
>>   the "mail view".
>
> Similar to the New indicator, I would have expected a "D" to mark
> deleted mails, but still an "N" or no symbol is shown after deleting
> a mail.

please do the same checks like described above.

> > - Jump to next/previous new (not \Seen) mail in the 'mail list view'
> >   and in the 'mail view'.
> Works, but if the next unseen mail is beyond the currently displayed set of
> mails, the cursor jumps somewhere but the list view seems not to be
> updated!?
Hmm, I have tested all the issues you described just while typing this 
mail. Could it be the case that you have a general refreshing problem in 
mail-list-view? How many mails to you have in this mailbox - I tested 
with a folder of 20 and 1500 mails.

> I am running vdr-1.2.6 on Debian 3.0 [...]
Thanks for the information and for the detailed report.

bye, Alex



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