[TriLUG] Solved: Squirrelmail - message count doesn't auto refresh on folders - firefox

[Matt Pusateri]

Trilugers,

I was wondering if anyone else was noticing this in Squirrelmail.  I
have message counts turned on with folder refresh.  It seems that
under Firefox 0.8 and 1.0PR that the message totals do not get updated
even though the time of the folder refresh indicates a refresh has
happened.  This has been since I updated from 1.4.2 to 1.4.3a .  Now
if I click on the inbox, my message list gets updated showing new
messages, but the
message count still does not get updated until I click folder refresh
after having clicked the inbox.  It seems to work fine in IE, so maybe
this is a firefox issue?


FreeBSD 5.3Beta3
Squirrelmail 1.4.3a - compiled from ports
PHP4.3.8 with openssl statically compiled - also from ports
UW-IMAP2004d. - from ports
Firefox 1.0PR on W2K
IE 5.5SP4 on W2K

Thanks,

Matt Pusateri


I found the following on the Squirrelmail-dev list which solved my
problem.


Try checking the setup of your IMAP server. I'm using UW-IMAP, and I
noticed the
following behaviour, which isn't a bug but a feature.

Incoming mail is delivered to "/var/spool/mail/[username]", which is the
inbox in SquirrelMail. If [username] has a file called "~/mbox", this
file
is the inbox. When a update of the folder list is made, the "newmail"
plugin detects
incoming messages and changes the titlebar accordingly, but
the number of mail in the INBOX folder doesn't change. When I press the
INBOX link, the IMAP server moves incoming mails from
"/var/spool/mail/[username]" to "~/mbox" and then displays the
content.
Next update of the folder list shows all mails as expected.

There are ways to avoid this problem, but I haven't bother to find out
how. I know
that, at least for some IMAP servers, you can configure the
MTA to run a small program each time a mail arrives, moving the
incoming
mail from "/var/spool/mail/[username]" to an inbox located elsewhere.


http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=squirrelmail-devel&m=108098673024816&w=4