[RCD] Code modification for a personal implementation or a Plugin?

[Philip Rhoades]

People,

Years ago I posted on a suggested improvement list somewhere to have an
option to only list folders with unread messages (I have hundreds of
folders and it that option would greatly reduce the necessary scrolling)
but it never got implemented - I guess because it never became a
priority for scarce development resources. While I would still like
that previously suggested upgrade, I have another upgrade which might be
more amenable to me having a shot it doing the work myself. I think it
is probably a minor tweak so I could just apply it to new, major
versions of the code as they are released. However, if what I wanted to
do could be done as a Plugin, I would be interested in trying that route
as well.

What I would like is, since there is already the facility to highlight
newly arrived mails in blue - to modify this facility a little so that
ANY mails that are less than 24 hours old are highlighted in blue. This
would be useful for when I have had to exit out of RCM and reload it for
some reason - currently all the blue highlighted mails lose the
highlight on re-opening RCM.

If someone could point me to the place in the code where I could do this
myself or how suggest I could do this as a plugin, I would greatly
appreciate it!

Regards,

Phil.

[Philip Rhoades]

People,

Post by Philip Rhoades
People,
Years ago I posted on a suggested improvement list somewhere to have
an option to only list folders with unread messages (I have hundreds
of folders and it that option would greatly reduce the necessary
scrolling) but it never got implemented - I guess because it never
became a priority for scarce development resources. While I would
still like that previously suggested upgrade, I have another upgrade
which might be more amenable to me having a shot it doing the work
myself. I think it is probably a minor tweak so I could just apply it
to new, major versions of the code as they are released. However, if
what I wanted to do could be done as a Plugin, I would be interested
in trying that route as well.
What I would like is, since there is already the facility to highlight
newly arrived mails in blue

That should be: "since there is already the facility to highlight
FOLDERS with newly arrived emails in blue".

Post by Philip Rhoades
- to modify this facility a little so that
ANY mails that are less than 24 hours old are highlighted in blue.
This would be useful for when I have had to exit out of RCM and reload
it for some reason - currently all the blue highlighted mails lose the
highlight on re-opening RCM.
If someone could point me to the place in the code where I could do
this myself or how suggest I could do this as a plugin, I would
greatly appreciate it!
Regards,
Phil.

[A.L.E.C]

Post by Philip Rhoades

Post by Philip Rhoades
What I would like is, since there is already the facility to highlight
newly arrived mails in blue

That should be: "since there is already the facility to highlight
FOLDERS with newly arrived emails in blue".

Post by Philip Rhoades
- to modify this facility a little so that
ANY mails that are less than 24 hours old are highlighted in blue.
This would be useful for when I have had to exit out of RCM and reload
it for some reason - currently all the blue highlighted mails lose the
highlight on re-opening RCM.

That would be definitely a plugin. It would do an ajax request just
after initial getunread request, where it would go through list of
folders doing an imap search for "unread messages arrived in last 24 hours".

Some hints for PHP code:

$rcmail = rcmail::get_instance();
$storage = $rcmail->get_storage();
$a_folders = $storage->list_folders_subscribed('', '*', 'mail');
$unseen_folders = array();

foreach ($a_folders as $mbox) {
// IMAP SEARCH supports date-only format
$index = $storage->search_once($mbox, 'UNSEEN SINCE ...');
if ($index->count()) {
$unseen_folders[] = $mbox;
}
// you may also/instead need to check timestamp of the most recent
message
}

$rcmail->output->command('set_unseen_folders', $unseen_folders);

Of course, you'd need the client-side part that does the request and
updates folders classes.

Also, considering performance you might need to store the list of unseen
folders in some database and update the state when you like and remember
when the user visited such a folder to not mark it unseen again, etc.