Bug 145436

Summary:	Problems with IMAP4: folders do not support mails and folders
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Joachim Reichelt <Joachim.Reichelt>
Component:	Evolution	Assignee:	Jeff Stedfast <fejj>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Poornima Nayak <pnayak>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Joachim Reichelt 2006-01-25 11:10:48 UTC

There is no way to make evolution mail to accept servers
that do not support folders for messages AND folders, e.g.
Linux using WU-Imap.
This makes evolution mail unusable for me.
I cannot create folders for messages.

Comment 1 Harish Krishnaswamy 2006-02-09 06:27:11 UTC

This is not supported and I am not aware of any current plans to add one. Referring to Partha for any further comments.

Comment 2 Joachim Reichelt 2006-02-09 08:59:56 UTC

This makes/keeps Evolution Mail useless for all userse with EMail on WU-Imap as shiped with Suse. And to get Cyrrus up is not easy :-;
It is the same Problem in kmail (shall I make a bugreport there too?)
So I have to stick to thunderbird.

Comment 3 Susarla Parthasarathi 2006-03-27 04:35:37 UTC

Please try using the IMAP provider (instead of the IMAP4rev1). The IMAP4rev1 provider is purely under development. The IMAP provider is the stable release.
TIA

Comment 4 Joachim Reichelt 2006-03-27 06:23:00 UTC

This did not help.
Reading mail does work with IMAP and IMAP4rev1.
The problem is:
If I create a "folder" in Evolution, there should be a file and a directory
on the (WU-)Imap server with the same name. An that is not possible on most systems (except VMS)

Comment 5 Susarla Parthasarathi 2006-04-12 08:07:45 UTC

Reassigning to fejj.

Comment 6 Jeff Stedfast 2006-04-19 19:39:50 UTC

> The problem is:
> If I create a "folder" in Evolution, there should be a file and a directory
> on the (WU-)Imap server with the same name. An that is not possible on most
> systems (except VMS)

uw.imapd won't allow clients to create folders that can contain both messages and other folders. this is not a client problem. The filesystem itself on the uw.imapd server probably won't even allow files and directories with the same name...

this is not a bug.

Comment 7 Joachim Reichelt 2006-04-20 06:06:10 UTC

There are options to circumvent this in e.g thunderbird or eudora.
There should be an option to create
- a folder for folders only
- a folder for messages only

Comment 8 Jeff Stedfast 2006-04-20 14:42:27 UTC

If you create a folder on uw.imapd with Evolution, it creates a folder-that-can-only-contain-messages. If you then go and try to create a subfolder of a folder-that-can-only-contain-messages, Evolution will first delete the folder-that-can-only-contain-messages and recreate it as a folder-that-can-only-contain-folders and then it will create the subfolder-that-can-only-contain-messages.

What's the problem? IT WORKS!!! The user never even has to know about different types of folders. It Just Works(tm).

If you are using the "imap4" account type instead of the "imap" account type, you need to switch to the "imap" account type. I've fixed the "imap4" account type, but it probably hasn't made it into our packages yet (and we don't recommend using "imap4" anyway as it is incomplete)

Comment 9 Joachim Reichelt 2006-04-21 06:44:31 UTC

Checked it and works this way.
You cannot change a nolder of messages to folder of folders. And this is due to
server limitations.
So it's all o.k.
Is there anywhere a hint of this.