aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/desktop/modules/mail/README.md
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'desktop/modules/mail/README.md')
-rw-r--r--desktop/modules/mail/README.md6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/desktop/modules/mail/README.md b/desktop/modules/mail/README.md
index 3b9f89e..ced87f3 100644
--- a/desktop/modules/mail/README.md
+++ b/desktop/modules/mail/README.md
@@ -61,6 +61,12 @@ back is a legitimate path for an account with no label.
## Counting
+**The counts follow the database, not the drawer.** `Accounts` runs its own
+`inotifywait -m` on the xapian directory and recounts 300ms after a commit
+burst settles. Before that it counted only at shell start and on opening the
+page, so the tile read 14 while the inbox held 16. The watcher respawns after
+5s if it dies, since a dead one reproduces that drift silently.
+
Every count is `tag:unread and tag:inbox`. Plain `tag:unread` also counts
archived-but-unread mail and mailing list traffic that was never in the inbox,
which for one account here was the difference between 32 and 41; the