Re: [Evolution] Subscribed folders?

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

> I use an email server in my department.  On the server, in my home
> directory, there is a Directory called Mail and within Mail are a bunch
> of subdirectories.

Is your mail in mbox files (i.e. all mail for a folder in a single file)
or Maildir format (mail in individual files held in a directory)

> On evolution, I have an account for the server and if I right click on
> that, there is an item Manage Subscriptions.  If I choose that there are
> boxes next to the various items in the Mail directory which presumably I
> can manage to subscribe to or not.  But they appear in that account in
> evolution whether or not I have subscribed to them. 

Edit -> Preferences -> <Select account> -> Edit -> Receiving Options and
then tick "Show only subscribed folders"

>  One, in particular,
> called from shows (50901), indicating a large number of unread messages.
> If I click on from I see lots of messages with all fields blank except
> Date which has a ? in it.

That sounds like the mail is corrupt or there's an error in the
formatting within the file on the server.

>   If I go to the server, I can read from and it
> has lots of messages in it.

When you say "go to the server" what do you mean?  How do you read it?
If you are using a Unix system what does 'file' reckon the format is?

> Is there some way I can prevent from from appearing in evolution?
> Presumably, if I move it out of Mail on the server, that would do the
> job, but that might mess up my mail some way or other.  What is the
> function of from?

There's no specific function.

As poc said, it is generally accepted these days that you keep mail
folders away from users as much as possible - because if they are part
of a user's filestore, then they inevitably feel that it is OK to fiddle
with them, edit them, etc. and that causes havoc unless you really know
what you are doing.  One I often had problems with was people editing
mbox files on a PC via an smb mount - some IMAP servers got really,
really confused by the DOS line terminator and interpreted the CR+LF as
two line breaks and produced some odd results.

P.