Re: [Evolution] Gmail integration w. Evolution

[Bart Vliegen <bvliegen gmail com>]

Milan Crha schreef op ma 31-10-2016 om 12:39 [+0100]:

>  sounds like you set a different IMAP namespace in the Thunderbird.
> Evolution's IMAP can do it too, it's only hidden from the UI since some
> older version (years ago). There is a plan to add some "Advanced IMAP"
> settings in the UI, but there is no time frame when it would be.
>
> Anyway, back to the point: depending on the way you configured your
> account, either in the Evolution itself, or using GNOME/Ubuntu Online
> Accounts, (the later possibly not available in your OpenSUSE) search
> either
>    ~/.config/evolution/sources/
> or
>    ~/.cache/evolution/sources/
>
> for *.source files which contain a line
>    [Imapx Backend]
> and also reference your Gmail address. Under that line you can see
> several keys, while the two you are looking for are:
>    Namespace=
>    UseNamespace=false
>
> You write to the first the same thing your wrote to the Thunderbird,
> then you also change the second to be:
>    UseNamespace=true
>
> After that save the changes and re-login, eventually close/kill all
> evolution processes (ps ax | grep evolution), where especially
> evolution-source-registry is responsible to the .source file changes.
> Maybe to not be that hostile for the system, just try to close the
> evolution itself only and run it again first, which should be enough in
> your version too. Only if it won't help, then try the hard way. I would
> also run evolution from a terminal first, to see whether it'll claim
> anything odd there after your changes.

Thank you. I found the file and made the changes you suggested and
rebooted my machine. It didn't work the way I want it to, meaning that
[Gmail] is still a subfolder under my email-account, containing all of
my gmail-folders (which in GMail technically are labels, not real
folders, as far as I understand). Thunderbird has its own implementation
of Gmail-style IMAP. You can read about it here:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-and-gmail

For now I'll return to Thunderbird. Evolution is a nice piece of
software, and I wanted to use it because it integrates well with Gnome,
but in the end I am too used to my workflow using Thunderbird.

Thanks everyone who responded for your help.

Regards,
Bart