Re: [Evolution] Re: [Evolution-hackers] CVS IMAP

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

if this is purely on the imap server (or u do all mail via said server)
then as jeff said, it is most likely a server issue.

if some mail is accessed via evolution through  local disk i/o (or nfs),
then softlinks are not and never were suppopted configuration.  w/ 1.2 u
can just point to any arbitrary folder tree anyway.

On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 01:34, Mark R. Bowyer wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 02:06, Not Zed wrote:
> > 
> > just committed a big imap patch to cvs evo.  <SNIP>
> 
> I was going to post to this list about this, and your email gives me a
> good excuse to do it now.  ;O)
> 
> Around 1.0.8, a change was made to the way folders are seen by the IMAP
> system, in that (a) soft links are no longer followed; and (b) the
> building of the "new folder" window suddenly sped up by about 100
> times.  While I found (b) very nice indeed, since I'm regularly
> Ctrl-Alt-E -ing to create a new folder to contain emails on new subjects
> (specifically new calls - I do technical support), I found (a) a
> complete pain.  While I keep all my mail folders in a directory in my
> (network mounted) home, for backup and access reasons, I move "old"
> folders into another directory fairly regularly, to keep my disk usage
> reasonable - and to do this I made a soft link to a directory on a local
> disk.  This used to work fine on Evo < 1.0.8, and I was able to see the
> directory of "old" folders in the folder view, and open it to look at
> old emails and drop the occasional new email that needed to go in one of
> them easily.
> 
> Now I don't even see links, and if I create a directory and link all the
> folders within it, then I see an empty folder, not one with more folders
> in.  So to view or file emails in these "old" folders I now have to fire
> up another email tool =O(  I'm running on Solaris BTW, but I don't think
> that's relevant.  I've tried linking to folders on the same mount point
> to ensure this isn't a problem with the IMAP server or the client and
> NFS mounting.
> 
> Was this a design decision, or just a result of a recoding that isn't
> intended?  And if the latter, can it/is it fixed?  I'm not using
> 1.1.99.x yet coz I can't get the spell-checker working with it, and I've
> become addicted to it.  But this fix would be much more important to
> me.  The last 1.1.99 build I tried, though, I couldn't really get *any*
> of my folders seen... =O(
> 
> Ta,
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