[Dovecot] Is this really a user agent issue?

[Karsten Bräckelmann]

On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 14:48 -0500, Phil Howard wrote:
> I suspect this is a user agent issue, given that Evolution is flaky in
> so many areas.  When I deliver mail to a subfolder/subbox (e.g. the -m
> option in the deliver command), and Evolution doesn't know of it, yet,
> creating it fails, and Evolution still can't get to it.  Doing things

Creating the new mail folder is entirely on the IMAP server side. The
MUA (Evolution in your stated case) is irrelevant. If the creation of
the new folder fails, it is a server side problem.

However, once a new folder has been created (server side, mind you),
Evolution won't know about that folder until it is restarted. Probably
the same with other MUAs, too. In the worst case, restarting Evo twice
should show the new folder.

(That is assuming you are not limiting your MUA to subscribed folders
only, or, as IIRC is the default, deliver auto-subscribes the user to
the just created folder.)


> the other way around (create it in Evolution first, then deliver to
> it) works fine.  Seems to be silliness to me.  Just wondered if any
> Dovecot aspects might be involved ... such as the fact that the case
> is different (e.g. "INBOX" in the filesystem, but "Inbox" in
> Evolution).

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