Re: [Evolution] Renaming Imap folders

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

Hmmm, I thought we had written the move-folder/rename-folder code to
recursively move/rename but perhaps we did not or perhaps that code has
gotten broken somehow.

Please submit a bug at bugzilla.gnome.org so it can be looked at.

Thanks,

Jeff

On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 10:14 +0100, Oli wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a problem with renaming folders in Evolution 2.4.1 when 
> connected to a Maildir based Imap mailstore.
>
> If the folder being renamed has children, the children are not renamed 
> and the user is left with what looks like the old and new parent folders 
> shown in the folder tree.
>
> Due to the way Maildir works, the child system dirs on the mailserver 
> containing the mail have the names of their parents in the dir name. 
> The actual parent gets renamed, but this 'old' parent still exists in 
> the child file names.  Evolution then presents this 'old' parent in the 
> heirarchy but complains bitterly that it doesn't exist when you click on it.
>
> The workaround seems to be to drag the children folders onto the new 
> parent and restart Evolution.  My users aren't very happy with this 
> workaround...
>
> Has a bug been raised about this? (I haven't found anything on Google so 
> far)  Has anyone found a better workaround or way to fix it?
>
> Thanks very much in advance,
> -Oli
>
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