Re: [Evolution-hackers] RFC: Check for mail only in subscribed folders.

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org>]

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 11:48 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> Does this break NNTP subscription stuff?

No; it's entirely within the IMAP provider. The generic code always asks
for only subscribed folders, if the store admits to being able to
understand subscriptions. The way the IMAP provider implements 'show all
folders' is to pretend it _doesn't_ grok the concept of subscriptions.

I did comment on IRC that I suspect it'd be nicer if we could change
this; moving the 'show all or only subscribed folders' option out of the
imap-private config, and possible also the choice of which folders to
check for new mail. I didn't do that though.

> anyways, I don't know about NotZed but I think a better approach would
> be to allow specifying which folders to automatically check for new mail
> rather than the kludge you've done.

I very much prefer using the subscribed folder list for this, since the
server maintains that and when new folders are added (or become active)
it doesn't need to be changed in all clients.

Besides, there's not another sane meaning for subscription, in the 'show
all folders' case.

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dwmw2