Re: [Evolution] Hide IMAP dot folders?

[Scott Otterson <scotto u washington edu>]

If Outlook and Mozilla (>90% of all IMAP clients by user) don't display
dotfiles, then that IS the convention.

Evolution isn't following it.

Scott

On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 12:02, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> if there was a convention, it would be in the server implementation -
> WHERE IT BELONGS
>
> Jeff
>
> On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 14:53, Scott Otterson wrote:
> > Unix again...
> >
> > Outlook and Mozilla -- two of the most popular non-Unix IMAP clients --
> > do not display dotfiles, regardless of what LIST returns.  There's a
> > convention here that evolution isn't following.
> >
> > Scott
> >
> > On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 11:23, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > > hiding dot files is a unix filesystem thing, it is not an imap thing.
> > >
> > > if folders starting with a . were meant to be hidden by imap clients,
> > > then the server simply wouldn't return them in the LIST query, now would
> > > it?
> > >
> > > Jeff
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 13:28, Scott Otterson wrote:
> > > > I don't see what the OS has to do with this.
> > > >
> > > > Mozilla and Outlook -- neither of which require Unix -- hide the
> > > > dotfiles.  If two of the most popular IMAP clients handle this situation
> > > > gracefully, then this is starting to look like an OS-independent IMAP
> > > > convention.
> > > >
> > > > Has anybody noticed how other IMAP clients handle dotfiles?
> > > >
> > > > Scott
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 10:07, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > > > > imap != unix filesystem
> > > > >
> > > > > period.
> > > > >
> > > > > Jeff
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 13:06, Scott Otterson wrote:
> > > > > > Well, manually subscribing to a bunch of folders is a way to handle
> > > > > > this. 
> > > > > >
> > > > > > But Mozilla and Outlook are smarter than that... can't evolution be too?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 09:45, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > > > > > > this is a server issue, not a client issue.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > if your server uses dot files for state info, then it should not be
> > > > > > > listing them when we query for folders.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > however, you *could* simply have evo show only subscribed folders and
> > > > > > > just not subscribe to the dot folders.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Jeff
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 12:21, Scott Otterson wrote:
> > > > > > > > Is there a way to set up evolution to not display IMAP status dot
> > > > > > > > folders?
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > The UW IMAP server I'm hooked to has a lot of folders beginning with a
> > > > > > > > period.  I never look at them because they contain account info, spam
> > > > > > > > filter status and so on.  They're invisible in the folder views of
> > > > > > > > mozilla, outlook express, etc., but they fill up the screen in
> > > > > > > > evolution.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Is there an evolution XML file somewhere that I can change?
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Scott
> > > > > > > >
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