Re: [Evolution] Issues with maildir format

[FranÃois Michonneau <francois michonneau gmail com>]

Thanks for your reply.

  I tried this, but then Evolution converts the initial . to a _ and
will create a ._Alerts folder for instance.

  Cheers,
  -- FranÃois



On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:54, Reid Thompson <Reid Thompson ateb com> wrote:
> I'm guessing that you will have to configure offlineimap to map all folders
> to .folders
> i.e. offlineimap will have to understand that Alerts correlates to .Alerts
> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ÂInbox correlates to .Inbox
> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ÂSent Â"" Â Â Â Â "" .Sent
> etc
>
> On 06/03/2011 11:46 AM, FranÃois Michonneau wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Â I use offlineimap to synchronize my mail locally with my Gmail
> > account. I use evolution to read the maildir folder that offlinemap
> > creates.
> >
> > Â I upgraded to Evolution 3.0.2 but there is something wrong. I'm not
> > sure if it comes from my configuration or if it's a bug in Evolution.
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Â When I point Evolution to my maildir folder, it creates a new hidden
> > folder with the same name and empties the original folder. For
> > instance my folder Alerts become .Alerts. The content of Alerts is the
> > normal cur, tmp, new but all of these folders are emptied and the
> > content is copied to .Alerts.
> >
> > Â This is however an issue because offlineimap interprets this as my
> > Alerts folder being empty and removes all message from my Alerts
> > folder in Gmail. How can I avoid this?
> >
> > Â Thanks for your help,
> > Â -- FranÃois
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