Re: [Evolution] remove a folder (courrier-IMAP, Evolution 1.4, Exim4)

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 08:17 +0100, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a big problem:
>
> In my early beginings, I followed a tutorial that told me tu a some
> lines into my ~/.forward file. I put them.
> (It was about filtering spams to a special folder)
>
> The problem is that filter told to put (save) the spam into 
> $home/Maildir/INBOX.Spam 
>
> It created Another INBOX folder under my already existent INBOX folder!
> And when I browse my "maildir" with my MUA (Evolution) the Spam folder
> path is INBOX/INBOX/Spam . It's ugly.

Just call it Spam then, not INBOX.Spam.  Your server probably has a toplevel namespace of INBOX, and everything will be put directly underneath that - at the server end.

> Once i saw the spam filtering worked, I changed that line to 
> $home/Maildir/.spam , and now my spam is saved in 
> INBOX/span.
>
> Well... If I try to remove INBOX/INBOX (with my MUA), It tells me it's
> not possible to remove a folder with that name.
> If I physically erase INBOX/INBOX (rm -rfv $HOME/Maildir/.INBOX.Spam) ,
> the INBOX/INBOX folder still displayed in the Evolution IMAP folder
> listing... the INBOX/INBOX only disapear if I unsubscribe to it, but if
> I scan for folder, it still list it (though it has been physically
> removed). What's the deal?

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Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> "Ride, Work, Sleep. Beer." Novell's Evolution and Free Software Developer