Re: [Evolution] "Scanning folders" and folder behavior

[Tom Jennings <tomj wps com>]

> > Can I do this? There's this "subscribe to folder" phrase bandied about
> > temptingly in menus and such but I find no menu, comman, documentationor
> > web page about it as a concept.
>
> It's lifted directly from the IMAP specification
> (http://www.faqs.org/rfc/rfc3501.txt) where it's vaguely defined as
> meaning 'active' but without any clue as the actual interpretation of
> that.

Ahhh... I see the problem.


> In fact, the current implementation in Evolution is that if you have
> that option turned off, subscribing to folders makes no difference at
> all. I wonder if it would be sensible, in the case where 'Show only
> subscribed folders' is turned off, to have an option 'Check for mail in
> only subscribed folders'?
>
> I'd certainly find that useful too.

I found I have a nifty little problem here; I have "check for new mail"
set to 1 minute, and it takes umm a minute or more to check for mail...
Evo does not behave well. It gets sluggish, read-next-message (read or
unread) takes > 5 seconds. It's awful.

I just installed RH9, upgraded from 7.3, nahh, that can't have anything
to do with it... :-) Seriously, I think there's a change in IMAPs that's
making things behave differently (read: worse).

(I only upgraded to RH9 because a project I'm working on requires the
latest-and-greatest python as *default*. Whatever happened to backwards
compatibility, continuity, etc? Never mind me, I'm ranting.)