There should be a progress indicator

[aljawaid]

mailboxes can be quite big... if the plugin is scanning the inbox to look for certain emails, it can take time and it does.... there should be a user progress notification somehow.

[creecros]

for the most part yes, one of the reasons the task email feature kind of sucks. my only thought that could eliminate that time, kinda sucks, because I would need to add a table, and really don't think it's worth the trouble. I also have no idea how to do a progress bar, like clueless.

[alfredbuehler]

I think, it would be sufficient if the screen changed immediately to the mail list, issue a "scanning your mailbox..." message and finally fills up the list. Actually, after clicking on task email link, there is no visual action.

[creecros]

i spent all morning trying to figure that out. i failed.

[aljawaid]

What if you make a new page with a hook. Then update hook to show pending progress, then update the same hook when emails are found.

[creecros]

ya, i tried something similiar, ill look again with fresh eyes later. sometimes its hard to find a solution when you get stuck on something.

[creecros]

i think my issue was, i couldn't figure out how to go from template back to controller, without a link. no redirect, and apparently i havent ever done anything like that.

[aljawaid]

i think my issue was, i couldn't figure out how to go from template back to controller, without a link. no redirect, and apparently i havent ever done anything like that.

What about that meta refresh tag which autoloads the page. But then I guess you don't know how long it would take to scan the mails. I used a busy inbox and it took ages, like around 60secs

[alfredbuehler]

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I've applied some changes to the mail-scanning, for Task-Emails. Instead of getting all mails and then dropping the non-task mails, the Task#-prefix is now checked on the server, and only matching mails will be loaded. This should bring some more speed on processing, especially when there are plenty of other mails around in the inbox.

[creecros]

Good stuff!

[creecros]

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somehow this worked. it aint pretty.

[alfredbuehler]

What exactly?
Ah, I see, you're trying a progress indicator.

[creecros]

i would call it more of a something is happening indicator, its definately not going to track progress, but it will at least let people know stuff is going down

[alfredbuehler]

Good luck! For myself, I gave up…

[creecros]

As far as i can tell it works:

[alfredbuehler]

Thank you, looks great! Maybe you could put the phrase “Scanning mailbox” somewhere?