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evolution imap folder handling drives me crazy

Asked by Dennis Schäfers

Many people reported bugs about the whole "IMAP+namespace+pathprefix"-stuff. There are bug-reports (gnome-bugzilla, etc.), forum-/maillinglist-entries from the year 2005 (even earlier I guess) till today, so this issue is annoying people for years now. I'm VERY confused that the whole thing does not get the attention it deserves. I don't know the difference of IMAP, IMAPrev1... I have tried to use evolution on 5 different hosting providers in the past and I never found a solution for the following IMAP related problems:

* I can't get INBOX.trash, INBOX.sent whatever displayed outside the INBOX folder in the same level in the treeview on evolution. I tried everything what the interface allows me to do. The whole namespace stuff in evolution is pure pain for me. I typed everything from "INBOX." "INBOX/" to "INBOX". Actually INBOX/ worked in the way that evolution doesn't shown the INBOX anymore and all includes folders which is useless. On Thunderbird: I typed INBOX in the Namespace-Folder input field and it works after restart or minimize/maximize the treeview of the email account. All Folders are shown in the same level in the treeview. Even the Horde Framework shown the folders in the same level.

* Evolution use default icons for the IMAP folders. I doesn't set the right Icons for drafts etc. Even when I set the default Draft and Sent Folder from the preferences. On Thunderbird: I save a new mail as a draft. The draft folder creates automatically as INBOX.drafts and shown with the right Icon and the localized Label. This works great with all other Folders. On Evolution I have to rename the folder on the server, but what if people with different languages using the same folder?

* The local Trash and Spam folder are shown on IMAP account? Why?

I very thankful to the people who work on evolution, but it keeps me using POP3 or to use Thunderbird which works great on IMAP. I can't get it! Do I have to use a server who doesn't implemented IMAP in the INBOX or what? Are there any? That not a solution for that. I read some bug reports to the whole namespace+IMAP problems and the answers of the developers where disappointing. Is there a solution for my problems?

I'm using feisty and the included evolution version.

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Best John Haitas (jhaitas) said : 		#1

i have issues with evolution's handling of IMAP... but this is a bug report you need to send upstream to the evolution team...

the ubuntu team does not deal with these sorts of evolution issues - i've had similar frustrations...

here is the link to the gnome bugzilla....

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/

good luck

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Dennis Schäfers (yok-sudo) said : 		#2

Thanks John Haitas, that solved my question.

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John Haitas (jhaitas) said : 		#3

Sorry I could only answer your question... unfortunately the Ubuntu team does not solve these problems....

on the bright side the expanded Evolution user base provided by the Ubuntu distro can provide added pressure/support to the Evolution team...

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Dennis Schäfers (yok-sudo) said : 		#4

Thanks, John. It's okay. I doesn't expect an answer that solves that problem. A bug report will get lost in gnome bugzilla, cause there are reports around the whole namespace/folder-stuff and some of them were answerd by evolution developers. I think they would have to rewrite stuff and its more a "feature" than a bug. IMHO this issue forces people to use thunderbird, wich would like to use evolution, cause its great (expect imap support). A bug report from an "stupid user" like me would not have the "pressure" to start a discussion about it, but maybe someone else...