Okay, let's just say this can be done with the custom icon hooks, then.

I tend to agree.

I really don't like this in the sidebar, it takes up too much space.

I've gone the route of always showing the (unseen/total) in most of 
our views so that  the display of polled folders is consistent.

As long as they have similar icons for our trash & spam folders as 
well, it looks good.

If the color matches, fine. And we should make sure that the special 
icons like trash take precedence over the polled icons.

How about this one? There's one without the pin for the regular folder 
icon, and both are from the gnome-stock collection that we've been 
getting most of the icons from lately. I'm sure I can dig up an open 
folder one, too.

Now to find an appropriate icon. :)

Sounds good to me too.

Sounds good.

Kevin: for you, does this need to be a grouping like show unsubscribe? 
Or would adding a CSS class of "folderPolled" (for example) that'd 
show in the folder navigator and portal block work?



Also, Jan as well, what about having a different icon for a folder 
that's polled? That seems less intrusive to me and would work in the 
sidebar as well...

I agree.
It's fine by me, I guess. I don't feel strongly about it either.

I don't think this is a good idea, I don't want the sidebar folder 
list to be too overloaded.
I have no strong opinion about this. What do others think?

After closer review, I'm not sure either :(  I think I must be getting 
delusional, because right there in the folder navigator is (0/368).  I 
know this caused me problems somewhere in the past - the only place I 
can find now that would have the behavior that I described is the left 
sidebar.  Folders with new messages are bold and have a number.   
Unpolled folders and folders with no new messages appear the same.  I 
think that must be it - there were folders I missed and I kept 
watching the sidebar because I knew there should be new mail in some 
of the folders.  So maybe a way to show that a folder is polled there 
in the sidebar?
But you can end up with dead entries in nav_poll.  I've got an 
interesting mishmash of  folders leftover from old mail servers, test 
mail servers, test Horde installs, etc. that have accumulated in 
nav_poll.  And the issue remains that with lots of folders, I still 
don't have a succint way to determine all the folders that are being 
polled.  The underlying issue there is not for me but for my users.   
Most users need some sort of logical grouping of folders, to 
understand that "these folders are being checked for new messages".   
Its difficult for them to grasp the concept of IMAP subscriptions, let 
alone know that if a folder has a (number/total) after it in the 
Folder Navigator, it will show up bold in the sidebar and the mail 
portal block summary, if there's new mail.  If instead you can toggle 
something that says "Show me Folders to Check for New Mail", they can 
grasp that easier..

No idea what you mean, I always get the message count for polled 
folder in the folders navigator, even if they don't contain any 
messages.
IMP doesn't go through the poll list and tries to look for messages, 
but goes through all displayed folders and looks up if they should be 
polled. So this not an issue, and in fact the wanted behaviour because 
the folder might simply be unsubscribed at the moment.

I have about 150 folders, of which I'm only interested in real-time 
stats for about two dozen of them.  So I have those folders set to 
Check Folders for New Mail.  The problem is from time to time, I 
decide to go on a cleaning spree, so I'll select all folders to check 
for new mail, so I can get a message per folder count.  I'll clean out 
folders that have high message counts.  And then I go back and 
deselect all, and then manually choose which folders to check for new 
mail again.  Most of the time, I manage to get all the folders I want 
checked.  But from time to time, I miss one or two, and its impossible 
to tell if I have a folder set to be checked or not, if the folder has 
no new messages in it.  It looks the same whether I have it set to 
poll or not.



So some way to be able to tell that a folder is being polled for new 
mail would be extremely helpful - italicize it, or I don't know what.   
Or in the spirit of IMAP subscriptions, a show Polled Folders/show All 
link.



Also, how are "dead" folders handled?  By that I mean folders that 
have been added to the list to be polled, but later deleted (maybe by 
IMP, maybe by some other program).  Or maybe the key in the  IMP 
servers.php was changed, so the poll list is no longer valid.  It 
would be nice to have a way to expose the internals of  nav_poll, in a 
user-friendly way.