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Incorrect mesg count shown #42

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Hello!

Just found this app and installed 1.0.6.6. It reports 26 unread messages, when 
26 is the total number of messages I have - only 5 of them are unread...

Is this a known thing?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by krakout on 30 May 2011 at 5:58

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Also (and I'm posting it here because it may be related to the issue above), it 
insists on giving me notifications for the same mails over and over again... I 
guess it should be so as to notify you *once* for every change, not every 
single time it checks for email!

Original comment by krakout on 30 May 2011 at 7:11

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Hi,

I'm taking the counter from the gmail feed url 
(https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom/unread - you can open this in a 
browser, when you're logged in to your google account). So if you're getting an 
"incorrect" count - use this url to track the messages that marked as unread 
but are not showing up in your mailbox (I had the same issue with my gmail).

As for the other issue - it's not really an issue, it's just easier for me to 
do it this way :-)
With the solution you propose - I'd have to go through your emails, ID them, 
keep a record of all unread ones and compare that to what you have in your 
mailbox every time when checking.
Sorry but that's not worth doing :-)
Normally what I do when I get a new email notificaction - I go to my gmail, 
read the email (or delete it) and that's it, no more notifications.

I hope this helps,
Thanks,
Tom

Original comment by tborycho...@gmail.com on 30 May 2011 at 7:24

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Huh, you're right, Gmail serves an incorrect feed! There are messages in there 
several months old. The fact that the unread count is equal to my inbox count 
suggest a bug on Google's part... 

I use Gmail the same way as you more or less, so if I get rid of the "unread" 
emails it shouldn't be so much of a bother!

Oh, and (yeah, it's a feature req, but since we're here...), how about an 
Unread count in the icon? :)

Other than that, really nice... thanks and keep it up!

Original comment by krakout on 30 May 2011 at 7:28

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Hi again,

Yeah, that would be nice to have, but:
1. the app can check gmail & reader - so should I include 2 counters or 1 
counter that sums up both?
2. I would have to: either create counter icon on the fly (witch is complex as 
hell and looks ugly like hell), or create 10000 icons with all possible 
numbers/counters included, which doesn't really make sense :-)

But I think about this all the time! :-)

For now - a very pleasant and "quiet" use I've discovered myself is: turn off 
all alerts and the app will just show star in the systray when there are news 
and if you hover it with the mouse - it shows the counters in a tooltip.

Cheers,
Tom

Original comment by tborycho...@gmail.com on 30 May 2011 at 10:30

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I think that anyone who uses RSS feeds in any degree of seriousness has 
hundreds and hundreds of unread items, so IMO RSS notifications are always 
useless... I mean, who is really following only one or two sites?

Anyhow, I get what you're saying. Would it be possible to push the email's 
details (author, subject) to Growl?

Original comment by krakout on 31 May 2011 at 10:05

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
1. I'm following about 30-40 rss channels and I never miss anything. I'm not 
reading full articles from all of them, just headers and if it's interesting - 
I read the full text. But I always go through all headlines. 
Isn't that the point of using rss? And isn't that the difference between rss 
and e.g. twitter?

2. It would be possible, but - again - I'd have to keep a record of all your 
new emails to display each one just 1 time (otherwise - if you have 10 unread 
emails - all would show up every "check" time). Also I'd have to store those 
emails somewhere in the file to retain the "record" when you restart the app.

The purpose of this app is to just show you the unread counter and to mark that 
there are some unread news/emails, and not to display them...

Original comment by tborycho...@gmail.com on 31 May 2011 at 10:29

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
1. Oh, of course, that's what I do, too (and, I would guess, mostly everyone). 
But there are *always* unread items, so a notifier is pretty useless. It's 
1000% certain there'll be new items at any given moment.
2. I see... still, it's pretty useful - which is why every mail notifier uses 
it. I really don't know how hard it would be to code this in, but it'd save 
checking the mail every time unless there's something you're really interested 
into...

Original comment by krakout on 31 May 2011 at 10:35

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Issue 43 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by tborycho...@gmail.com on 4 Jun 2011 at 9:30