Re: [Evolution] Hide IMAP dot folders?

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 16:10, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 15:23, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > hiding dot files is a unix filesystem thing, it is not an imap thing.
>
> Strictly it's not even a filesystem thing. It's a convention
> of the "ls" command, nothing more.

sure.

> > 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?
>
> Quite right. I presume the client isn't showing "." and "..", so it's
> already showing some discrimination. It just isn't doing it right.

you mean the server here. the client isn't hiding anything.