Re: [Evolution] Gmail integration w. Evolution

[Bart Vliegen <bvliegen gmail com>]

On Mon, 2016-10-31 at 12:39 +0100, Milan Crha wrote:
> it 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

I found out that it isn't the IMAP namespace, but the IMAP server
directory that is set in Thunderbird. I can't find this setting in the
/sources files. Is it possible to set the IMAP server directory in
Evolution? I am now using the latest version on Debian stretch.

Regards,
Bart