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, --------My opinion - Not sane, intelligent or necessarily useful-------- o o mailto:Moredhel earthling net /v\ark R. Bowyer http://www.bowyer.screaming.net Mark Bowyer Sun COM `-' ------------------------------------------------------ /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign fingerprint = 7924 9E9E 7B91 225E B065 X Against HTML Mail 1024D/19BC72F6 39D0 551D ABE6 1514 0DC1 / \
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