Re: [Evolution] IMAP Namespace in 3.10.4

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Wed, 2014-11-19 at 11:09 -0600, Sajan Parikh wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-11-19 at 16:56 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > I don't recall ever seeing that in Evolution. The namespace is normally
> > defined at the server end. Why do you want to override it?
> >
> > poc
>
> My Sent, Junk, Trash folders are all being shown as a subfolder of
> Inbox.  In Thunderbird, I was able to set a IMAP Path prefix to INBOX
> and everything became a top level folder as expected.

The original IMAP spec works this way by default. Most IMAP server
implementations such as Cyrus allow the server admin to change it to use
a so-called "rootless" configuration, i.e. with the top folders at the
same level as Inbox. That of course applies uniformly to all users. As I
said, I can't recall Evo ever having an option to change that on a
per-user basis. It may have had such an option a long time ago but AFAIK
not recently.

> Here is a message on the Ubuntu mailing list referencing the same issue
> and option.
>
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2004-October/008658.html

A message from 2004? I doubt that's going to be very helpful.

poc