Re: [Evolution] Courier IMAP odd behavior

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 02:35, Blake Barnett wrote:
> I'm running evolution 1.0.7 on Debian Sid.  My mail server runs
> Courier-imap v1.4.3 w/ssl on Debian woody.
>
> I'm pretty sure this is a known issue, but I can find no solution or
> further information from searching the archives.
>
> When I create a new account _sometimes_ it works correctly for a few
> minutes but it always reverts to saying "This folder cannot contain
> messages" for the INBOX.  I believe that from my testing it appears to
> happen when I create a subfolder.  

Subfolder of what folder?  Perhaps a log output of

CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBUG=1 evolution-mail

(run in a separate terminal before starting evolution)
could help identify the problem.

> Also if I set the "Override server supplied folder namespace" to ".",
> then I am able to access messages in the INBOX but all the subfolders
> disappear.  I am also not able to create subfolders in this state.

There is a known bug that you can't have an INBOX namespace containing
an INBOX.

> I have tried deleting my ~/evolution directory, recreating the account,
> removing (purge) and reinstalling evolution.  It does not help.
>
> > From reading the courier-imap FAQ, they refer to rfc2342 and some mail
> clients not implementing it correctly.  I believe I'm forcing this
> behavior when I override the namespace, but evolution doesn't seem to be
> playing nice on it's own.

Yes, not suprisingly.  We haven't implemented that rfc at all yet!

> Any help would be appreciated.
>
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