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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 |