Smart Mailbox Doesn't Refresh Itself
Reported by Mark | March 26th, 2015 @ 11:13 PM
This is a non-critical minor annoyance. I've created my own custom smart box called "Incoming!": the "Mailboxes" setting is All Messages, and there are conditions to include a few specific source-paths of the pattern "Inbox/sub-mailbox" and exclude all Trash and Junk.
On the sources side, messages come into the "Inbox/sub-mailbox" via filter-rules in their parent Inboxes. The sub-mailboxes then further filter those incoming messages, sending some to Trash, some to other mailboxes.
In the smart box called "Incoming!", those filtered messages appear when they enter the "Inbox/sub-mailbox," but don't disappear (from "Incoming!") when filtered out of the "Inbox/sub-mailbox"; i.e. the "Incoming!" smart box doesn't refresh itself, and those filtered out messages are dead, so to speak: I can't delete them from the "Incoming!" smart box, because they're no longer in a source mailbox that "Incoming!" is connected to.
What I'm doing now is clicking on any other smart mailbox and them clicking back on "Incoming!", and that refreshes it. If in some future release it could refresh itself, that would make MailMate just that tiny bit more elegant.
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benny March 27th, 2015 @ 09:51 AM
- State changed from “new” to “accepted”
The explanation (I think): MailMate intentionally do not remove emails from the current view when, e.g., marking something “read” in the Unread mailbox. This is because it would quickly become confusing if an email disappeared just because the user was reading it. Unfortunately, this has some bad side-effects and I haven't yet found a good solution. But I'm thinking about it because I'm also bitten by it myself.
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Jochen Issing November 25th, 2015 @ 03:57 PM
Mail.app has a menu item called "Rebuild", which refreshes the current mailbox.
Thereby the user could refresh the mailbox on demand and the UI would not get messed up automatically. -
Dave Eckhardt December 4th, 2015 @ 03:11 AM
One option might be to somehow indicate visually that the message
"isn't really there" (e.g., grey it out). Then clean up the greyed-out messages when the view updates in some other way (such
as something being added), or after a 5-minute delay. -
benny December 4th, 2015 @ 08:49 AM
@Jochen: Yes, some kind of explicit refresh method would be useful.
@Dave: Yes, some visual indication of the message state would be useful, but I don't think I should try to be “too smart” about auto-refreshing (at least not by default).
Thanks for your comments.
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Jochen Issing December 4th, 2015 @ 09:15 AM
Thanks benny for both responding and MailMate! :)
Out of curiosity: Does accepted mean it's in the backlog and is there any way to see the backlog's progress? -
benny December 4th, 2015 @ 09:18 AM
@Jochen: It just means that it's something I'm willing to implement, but as can be seen in the ticket system that does not mean it's going to happen any time soon. It could be days or it could be years. If/when I do implement it then the ticket is updated with “fixcommitted/fixreleased”.
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fnurl February 13th, 2016 @ 11:26 AM
- Tag set to “smartfolder, smartmailbox”
Yes, a "refresh" option for Smart Mailboxes would be nice. I agree that an auto-refresh is not optimal. However, a notification just below the column headers saying something like "New messages are available for this view. Refresh?" together with "Yes" and "Not this time" buttons would be a good way of handling this I think.
(basically what Gmail does for conversations -- "A new reply from X is available, update conversation?")
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benny February 16th, 2016 @ 10:47 AM
@fnurl: New things should always appear immediately. This ticket is about MailMate not removing messages from the currently displayed mailbox if it was triggered by a keyword change. This is intentional, but the current implementation is a bit too general and some times emails stick to a mailbox when it doesn't make a lot of sense.
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Januz February 10th, 2019 @ 01:30 AM
Has a command to refresh a smart mailbox ever been added? I would also like to manually (with a keyboard shortcut) refresh the current smart mailbox. Thanks!
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benny February 11th, 2019 @ 02:34 PM
- State changed from “accepted” to “fixcommitted”
The default behavior should be better now, but there actually is a keybinding selector for explicitly refreshing (no menu item):
refreshMailbox:With respect to the original problem in this ticket, I believe MailMate has better default behavior now.
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