Re: [Evolution] Renaming Imap folders

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

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?

I can *not* duplicate this error:
Original:
drwx-w----  6 me me  4096 Sep 23  2005 .Newsletters.NY_Times/
drwx-w----  6 me me  4096 Sep  9  2005 .Newsletters.NY_Times.2001/
drwx-w----  6 me me  4096 Sep  9  2005 .Newsletters.NY_Times.2002/
drwx-w----  6 me me  4096 Sep  9  2005 .Newsletters.NY_Times.2003/
drwx-w----  6 me me  4096 Sep  9  2005 .Newsletters.NY_Times.2004/
drwx------  6 me me  4096 Feb 10 18:21 .Newsletters.NY_Times.2005/

Renamed:
drwx-w----  6 me me  4096 Apr 12 12:44 .Newsletters.NY_Times2/
drwx-w----  6 me me  4096 Apr 12 12:44 .Newsletters.NY_Times2.2001/
drwx-w----  6 me me  4096 Apr 12 12:44 .Newsletters.NY_Times2.2002/
drwx-w----  6 me me  4096 Apr 12 12:44 .Newsletters.NY_Times2.2003/
drwx-w----  6 me me  4096 Apr 12 12:44 .Newsletters.NY_Times2.2004/
drwx------  6 me me  4096 Apr 12 12:44 .Newsletters.NY_Times2.2005/


The problem is, though, that the NY_Times tree still exists, 
according to Evolution (but not courier-IMAP).

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