Re: [Evolution] Maildir and dot hierarchy separator

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 17:41 +0200, Paul Ezvan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to use Evolution (2.30.0.1) on a Maildir shared through
> CIFS. It works fine except that subfolders are not recognized.
>
> In the Maildir folder the subfolders are named
> as : .subfolder.subsubfolder etc, 
> but they are listed like this in Evolution, so it doesn't display the
> correct hierarchy.

AFAIK the Maildir hierarchy should appear as a real hierarchy of folders
when seen from the client machine, i.e. folder, folder/subfolder,
folder/subfolder/subsubfolder etc. From your description, it doesn't
sound like that's what's happening, so the problem may be the way the
CIFS filesystem is being accessed from your machine.

> Can Evolution recognize dot hierarchy separator ?

Not really relevant. Evo just uses the native filesystem hierarchy. It
should never see "separators" in local folder names (including those of
remotely mounted folders). Accessing a mail server with the IMAP
protocol will show dots as separators, since that's how IMAP works by
default, but that's a different matter.

poc