Re: [Evolution] 0.8 problems - Imap folders et al.

["Jeffrey Stedfast" <fejj helixcode com>]

[comments below]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Steven" <rgs etive southern co nz>
To: <evolution helixcode com>
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 5:40 PM
Subject: [Evolution] 0.8 problems - Imap folders et al.


> Here are some of the glitches currently evident in evolution (ex cvs)
> There are others, but off the top of my head these are the only one's I
> can remember being consitantly reproducable.
>
> I have my Imap folders in a directory structure, ie personal email in a
> directory called Personal, work related email in a directory called
> Work.
>
> If I subscribe to a folder in one of these subdirectories it does not
> show in the tree until I restart evolution. The following error is
> reported.
> Evolution-shell-WARNING **: e_folder_tree_add: Trying to add a subfolder
> to a path that does not exist yet -- /Marathon
> Cannot register folder -- /Marathon/jacques
> /home/rgs/mail/Marathon/jacques
> If I add a folder in an existing path, it shows up immediately.
>
> When folders are subscribed to, the full path name appears in the tree.
> I only want to see the name of the individual folder, not its path.
> (I have reported this before)

can you show me what the structure looks like now and what you want it to
look like?
If I understand correctly, we HAVE to show the heirarchy - why wouldn't you
want to see that? You want everything on the same level? why?

> I often crash on expunging. I will include a bt in a separate message.
> If I try and reproduce it now, I will probably lose what I have already
> typed.
>
> If I do a search on 'Subject Contains' the behavior is more akin to
> 'Subject matches exactly' . It only matches if I type in the subject
> line exactly as it appears in the table view, including the trailing
> spaces!

Then this is the fault of your IMAP server, we use the command:
A00123 UID SEARCH HEADER "Subject" "blah"

If that's not "contains" then there is no way to do contains the way we were
earching in 0.8, so I don't know what to tell you.
Dan recently rewrote IMAP searching so it didn't use the IMAP server but
instead searched the local cache so maybe this'll solve your problem.

> A filter which moves mail from an imap folder copies the messages
> successfully, but does not delete them. They are shown as deleted but
> they do not go away with an expunge, and they are still there if you
> hide deleted messages. (I think I have mentioned this before too).

try rm -f'ing your cache, rm -f ~/evolution/mail/imap? I forget, some path
like that.

> The calendar seems to have a problem which I presume to be with daylight
> saving. If I go into the day view, click on the 9am slot, and type
> something, when I press return my entry jumps back in time to 8am.
>
> I invariably check email each morning just after 7am. Despite this
> consistant behaviour, evolution has not once greated me with a cup of
> freshly brewed coffee. I notice also that despite evolution being left
> running all night, in the morning the dishes remain undone and the
> laundry unfolded. I would hope that this is smartly addressed by the
> release of  0.8.1

This is a known bug, you must upgrade libMaid to version 1.0

Jeff