Re: [Evolution] Evolution 2.28.0 namespace

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 16:51 +0100, Martin Jungowski wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 06.03.2010, 21:28 -0430 schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan:
> > This is not a problem with Evo but with the way Cyrus works by default.
> > You need to configure it to use the "anonymous root" folder layout
> > instead of the default "INBOX root" which is uses out of the box. I
> > forget the name of the config variable but it's a simple change. Note
> > that it's system-wide, not per-user.
>
> In that case I'd like to rephrase my question: why are other mail
> clients, such as Mozilla Thunderbird, Microsoft Outlook and Outlook
> Express, or Apple Mail capable of overriding this Cyrus folder layout
> and Evolution is not?
>
> I've been using this mailserver for almost a decade now, mostly
> unchanged. With several email clients, Evolution being the latest
> experiment and the only one that fails to display folders correctly (or,
> to be more precise, to override the Cyrus setting).

You'd have to ask the developers. I can't speak for them, but don't be
surprised it they tell you that Evo does it correctly and the others are
a kludge.

poc