Re: [Evolution] How to get deleted IMAP folders to vanish?

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 08:04 -0700, Eric Lambart wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 15:11 +0200, Timm Riesen wrote:
> > I recently deleted an IMAP folder with two sub folders directly within
> > the servers interface (cyradm). Evolution was not running at this time. 
> > 
> > After starting evolution I noticed that the erased folders are still
> > being displayed in the hierarchy. Clicking on one of this folders raises
> > an error, which tells me, that the folder is not present on the server.
> > (not very surprising to me :-)
> > 
> > How can I remove this folders inside evolution?
> > (Without removing and reinserting the whole account, there must be a
> > better way, right?)
>
> Probably by unsubscribing them.  I'm not certain if it's in the same
> place in your Evo 1.4.6, but in Evo 1.5.8 it's in Tools->Subscribe to
> Folders.
>
> Perhaps this should happen automatically, though.  Does anyone know if
> Evo 1.5.x removes deleted folders locally, or if there's a good reason
> why it doesn't?  I suppose if the user has offline synchronization
> enabled, then they would have local copies of all the messages, and it
> would be best if Evo didn't delete them (and their folders) without
> confirmation, at least.

It should happen automatically, although for 1.4.6 i can't recall if it works right.  Also, some servers let you subscribe to folders which don't exist, and if you're using the 'show only subscribed' option, we just display what the server sends us.  So in some cases you still need to manually unsubscribe since the server is still saying you are subscribed.

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Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> Ximian Evolution and Free Software Developer