[Dovecot] evolution - folders not displayed correctly

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sat Nov 8 19:52:43 EET 2003


On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 00:12, Terry wrote:
> > Well, some of your mailboxes are with INBOX. prefix
> > and some not. I don't
> > think Evolution still should name them as
> > "Inbox.Bellevue" though.. Anyway,
> > how about removing the inbox-prefixes from all mail
> > clients and renaming
> > them so that they don't contain the INBOX-prefix? :)
> > 
> 
> What should be the proper format for directories?  If
> I do an ls -la in ~/Maildir, what should I see for
> subfolders?
> 
> is Inbox.foo not correct?

No, "foo" mailbox should be in "~/Maildir/.foo/" directory.

> I used yammc.pl to convert
> my files from mbox to maildir so Evolution didn't
> create them.  Mozilla displays them fine.

That's most likely because you have "Inbox." namespace prefix set in
Mozilla's configuration.

> In fact, if
> I try to create a subfolder under Inbox in evolution,
> I get 'Generic Error'.

Hmm. Don't know about that..




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