Display progress while receiving mail

[Danielle Foré]

There is currently no way to see if Postler is sending or receiving messages.

A progressbar in the bottom left would solve this quite nicely :D

[Allen Lowe (lallenlowe)]

something SORTA like this could pop up when you click on the progress bar

[Bernd Prünster (jesusmccloud)]

This is a tricky one...
i have not found a way to parse mbsync's output in realtime mbsync.
The general idea would be this: monitor the output and when it changes, parse it and display it... all inside an async method which is fired up whenever sending/receiving is done.

[Bernd Prünster (jesusmccloud)]

this adds a very primitive status indicator to postler for receiving messages,
it still needs lots of love, also the escape characteres that isync uses to display progress of fetching messages needs to be dealt with.

[Bernd Prünster (jesusmccloud)]

update:

[Bernd Prünster (jesusmccloud)]

beautification

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

Updated patch, with fixed scrolling and whitespace.

The command line doesn't respect POSTLER_MBSYNC, that will need to be fixed.

As discussed, we'll leave this sleep until we have a DBus service running, and put it in there.

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

The receiving part is in principle working. It needs some polishing, the reported number of new messages is often wrong.

See bug 671663 for related work on sending.

[Bernd Prünster (jesusmccloud)]

fixes message count in status label

[Bernd Prünster (jesusmccloud)]

fixed i18n capability

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

Number fix committed.

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

My current complaints are:

* There is no spacing between the progressbar and the sides of the sidebar.
* Text should not be "122/300" it should be "122 of 300"

[Bernd Prünster (jesusmccloud)]

mbsync seems to fetch multiple folders for big inboxes,
this leads to wrongly displayed progress (wrong folder name to be precise):
the progress indicator "jumps" from
this http://img228.imageshack.us/i/screenshot1216201010554.png/
to
this http://img716.imageshack.us/i/screenshot1216201010533.png/
back and forth.
mabye another simple mbsync patch is needed (or code cahnges if mbsync doesnt hanlde parallel fetching and postler allows multiple mbsync instances)

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

Postler will run n mbsync processes in parallel if you have n accounts. We are using the same variables. So it is quite logically wrong. I didn't try to tackle this before we sort out the trouble with passing lambdas, which happened with sending.

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

I added 4 pixels padding to the folder treeview and made it say 'Retrieving x of y'.