Re: [Evolution] Lost Folder Namespace

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 17:28, Lonnie Borntreger wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 15:04, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > I set namespace="mail" in my evolution config and my folder list
> > displays correctly as follows:
> > 
> > [-] fejj localhost
> >     |- INBOX
> >    [-] mail
> >     | [-] gnome
> >     |  |  |- desktop-devel
> >     |  |  |- foundation
> >     |  |  |- gnome2-list
> >     |  |  |- gnome-cvs
> >     |  |  |- gnome-list
> >     | [-] ximian
> >     |     |- evolution
> >     |     |- evolution-hackers
> >     |     |- evolution-patches
> >     |- Trash
> > 
> > keep in mind that the namespace is ONLY used for limiting the LIST/LSUB
> > commands - it does NOT trim the namespace from the folder names.
>
> That is NOT using the namespace.

sure it is.

>   The concept of the folder namespace is
> so that you define a "sandbox" for the client to search for folders in. 
> IOW, if you turn off "Show Subscribed Only", you still should be
> restricted to only seeing what is under the defined namespace.  If you
> EVER see files outside of that folder namespace, then it is not working
> correctly.

sure, and even if I turn off "Only Show Subscribed folders" I still only see the same tree. it only requests the folders within mail/

the reason Trash is outside of mail/ is because it's not a real folder, it's a vTrash folder that *always* gets added at the toplevel.

>   If I do that in CVS Evo now, the folder bar will show my
> .profile

doesn't for me, and it won't for you either if you set your namespace to "mail".

> , which is NOT inside my folder namespace - and not even shown
> as a folder I can subscribe to, since the subscription view uses the
> namespace.

no, the subscription view is broken and lists each folder twice, once as toplevel and once not. It needs to be rewritten to display it just like the folder-tree is now.

> Any other IMAP mailer I've used (OE, Outlook, Netscape, Mozilla, pine,
> previous versions of evolution...) - even if it's just "hidden behind
> the scenes" - does not show any folders that make up the namespace - or
> any files outside of it (subscribed or not).  For example, if you used
> namespace="mail" in any of those, your folder list would look like:
>
> [-] fejj localhost
>     |- INBOX
>    [-] gnome
>     |  |- desktop-devel
>     |  |- foundation
>     |  |- gnome2-list
>     |  |- gnome-cvs
>     |  |- gnome-list
>    [-] ximian
>     |  |- evolution
>     |  |- evolution-hackers
>     |  |- evolution-patches
>     |- Trash

uh, you were saying?
> I find that change in the display annoying, but but that is not the
> problem I'm seeing with subscribing.  The problem is that some parts of
> the code are "hiding" that namespace path, and others aren't.  That is
> the only reason I can come up with for the fact that the Folder Bar does
> not show subscribed folders.  Somewhere between the subscribe and the
> show, they are not communicating the same "namespace" language.

yea, the subscribe dialog is broken.

> Try deleting your account in Evo, removing your imap local store, and
> then re-adding the account.  Then you'll see the problem.  That's when I
> first ran into it.  Just running a "newer" Evo with my old config
> started showing files outside the namespace, but the folders under the
> namespace were still there.  (and as long as Evo finds your old local
> store, it will be fine - but that is not what a new user will see)

the old store is there because the cache dirs overlap. you need to rm -rf it as I've said a hundred times.

Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
fejj ximian com  - www.ximian.com