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m_saveNewMsgs is "previous set of new msgs, which we might want to run junk controls on. This is in addition to "new" hdrs | m_saveNewMsgs is "previous set of new msgs, which we might want to run junk controls on. This is in addition to "new" hdrs | ||
in the db, which might get cleared because the user clicked away from the folder." That is, the concept of "new" is overloaded to mean both 1) messages that should count as "new" as displayed by the UI, and 2) recent messages that still need processing. Seems to me these concepts ought to be better separated. | in the db, which might get cleared because the user clicked away from the folder." That is, the concept of "new" is overloaded to mean both 1) messages that should count as "new" as displayed by the UI, and 2) recent messages that still need processing. Seems to me these concepts ought to be better separated. | ||
The folder attribute numNewMessages (which is the folder object mNumNewBiffMessages) could be replaced perhaps by a pending count of undownloaded messages plus the count of the database m_newList. As far as I can tell, this is mostly used in the folder tray icon. Most (all?) other uses of GetNumNewMessages are associated with maintaining that count, that is are followed by SetNumNewMessages with a delta value. | |||