Re: [Evolution] Creating Folders in Evolution for IMAP account

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 05:16, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> I've got an IMAP server running on my computer, and I've been using
> Evolution lately to pull the mail from the IMAP folders into Evolution's
> own folders.
>
> Now, though, I'd like to point Evolution directly at the IMAP folders,
> just to save time, space, and RAM (and to keep things consistent with
> folder locations when I check my mail remotely with Squirrelmail).
>
> Trouble is, I already have a bunch of sub-folders and filters set up in
> my local folders.  Is there a way to easily transfer them all to work
> with my IMAP folders?

I dont really get what you're doing?  Just treating imap as an inbox and
then filtering the messages using evolution into local folders?

Or is that what you want to do?  It should more or less work like that
if you just change the destination paths of the filters to folders on
the imap server instead.

Another alternative is to use maildir as your storage format, and share
the mail directly on disk by pointing them both at the maildir tree. 
This also reduces the need for redundant data copying.

> Also, when I try creating a subfolder using Evolution (by right-clicking
> on INBOX and selecting "create new folder"), I get an error message...
> which just says, "Generic Error", which isn't very useful.

It could be valid or it could be a bug, some servers wont let you create
subfolders of INBOX.  Folder creation is terribly messy because its
handled differently at different levels in the application, hence the
pretty meaningless error report.

> The Evolution support pages are a bit sparse on this topic.  Can anyone
> point me at some good resources that will help me figure this out?
>
> -- 
> Slainte,
> Richard S. Crawford
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