Re: [Evolution] Hide IMAP dot folders?

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 17:13, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> 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.

Correct.

poc