Re: [Evolution] access control on imap folders

[Bill Kenworthy <billk iinet net au>]

On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 10:25 +0200, Silvan Marco Fin wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I wondered, how evolution behaves, if it happens to come across an imap 
> folder to which it has limited access. Actually, I removed write access 
> on the imap server (cyrus, rights modified by user of cyradm) and tried 
> to delete an email. To my surprise it seemed to work, which of course 
> could not be correct. Next thing I saw was the "Error" message in the 
> dialog bar, which, when clicked brought up an error dialog telling me 
> something about "error syncing changes: permission denied". BUT: How do 
> I get my evo back in sync with the situation on the imap server? Now 
> everytime I take a look into that folder, the email is missing and I get 
> the error message. Without restoring write access, my evolution is in an 
> continous error state, concerning this folder. Even trying to undelete 
> the email doesn't solve this problem.
>
>   evolution used: 2.30.2 (from ppa/jacob) on ubuntu 10.04, imap access 
> via "imap+"
>
>   Kind regards,
>    Silvan

This is not an odd request ... I have had a number of occasions where a
network glitch has occurred and evolution gets out of sync with the
folder and refuses to get its act together.  And different instances of
evolution (i.e., home and work) have different views of whats actually
present in the folder.

it usually requires unsubscribing the folder,  syncronising and going
off line, then resubscribing again  :(

BillK