Re: [Evolution] Strangeness with Gmail IMAP

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 10:29 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 06:17 -0700, timzak wrote:
> > Using Evolution 2.26.1 in Ubuntu 9.04 64-bit.
> >
> > I noticed a strange, unnamed folder, which I cannot identify or delete and
> > is only visible in Evolution, not in Gmail's web client.  You can
> > right-click and select Delete, but it does not in actuality get deleted.  It
> > is the blue highlighted folder in the following image:  
> > http://www.nabble.com/file/p23793325/Screenshot-1.png Screenshot-1.png   
> >
> > When I right-click and select Properties for the folder within Evo, I get
> > the following information:
> > http://www.nabble.com/file/p23793325/Screenshot.png Screenshot.png 
>
> Never seen that, but I doubt it's special to Gmail.
>
> > Also, I noticed a couple of other things, while not show-stopping, can be
> > annoying.  Are there solutions?  They are:
> > 1) I cannot delete the local Junk folder within my Gmail account.  Gmail
> > uses it's own folder, SPAM, for junk, so I would like to delete the
> > redundant folder.  I cannot see this Junk folder within the web client, so
> > it appears to be generated locally by Evolution.
> > 2) There are two Trash folders.  Gmail uses an IMAP folder, and there
> > appears to be another Trash folder that Evolution creates locally.  In the
> > following picture, the blue highlighted Trash folder is the one that Gmail
> > does NOT use (Gmail uses the one at the top of this screenshot).  It appears
> > to be locally created and undeleteable.  Below the last IMAP folder, you can
> > see the Junk folder I mentioned in number 1 above, as well as the additional
> > Trash folder:
> > http://www.nabble.com/file/p23793325/Screenshot-2.png Screenshot-2.png 
> >
> > Are these known issues (perhaps with Gmail and not Evo?)?  Are there ways of
> > removing the redundancy or killing the unlabled folder?
>
> They aren't issues. You need to understand how Trash and Junk are
> implemented in Evolution. Neither of these is a real folder, which is
> why they don't show up in the web client. See
> http://www.go-evolution.org/FAQ#Why_do_I_have_two_Trash_folders_for_the_same_account.3F (Junk is similar).

To clarify: I'm talking about Trash and Junk. I don't know what's
causing the unlabelled folder.

poc