Re: [Evolution] Wish: Uncached IMAP folders

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 13:52 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 08:39 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > [Replying to own post]
> >
> > On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 08:08 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > Link the cache folders you don't want to /dev/null? (I haven't tried
> > > this and don't know about any possible side-effects).
> >
> > This makes no sense e.g. you might want to cache a subfolder but not its
> > parent, or cache headers but not bodies, etc. etc. In my defense I
> > haven't had my morning tea yet :-)
>
> Also it doesn't stop Evo from going of and getting things, it just
> doesn't store it anywhere.
>
> For me, I would like a way of selectively marking folders for checking
> for new mail - mail only appears in some of my folders (mainly as a
> result of server side filtering), the vast majority either get populated
> as a result of Evo filters, or things get put there manually.  At the
> moment Evo takes ages to sort itself out when I first start it because
> it goes through all my subscribed folders looking for new mail - I don't
> want to untick the 'Check for new messages in all folders' because there
> are some folders that I want to check - I don't want to unsubscribe the
> folders because I use the (unchanging) information in them.

Do you use Maildir-based IMAP?

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