Re: [Evolution] Gmail integration w. Evolution

[Rudolf Künzli <rudolf kunzli gmail com>]

On Thu, 2016-10-27 at 19:48 +0200, Bart Vliegen wrote:
> Thanks for the reply poc. You als have [Gmail] as a subfolder of your
> account. 
>
> Basically what I want is for my Gmail-account to be the single
> account / folder in Evolution. So my Gmail inbox is also my Evolution
> inbox. This can easily be done in Thunderbird, I am just looking for
> a way to make this work in Evolution. 
>
> I checked folder subscriptions, they won't accomplish what I want.
>
> Regards,
> Bart
>
> 2016-10-27 17:47 GMT+02:00 Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>:
> > On Thu, 2016-10-27 at 13:57 +0200, Bart Vliegen wrote:
> > > Hello everybody,
> > >
> > > I am using Evolution 3.22.1 on the latest OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
> > with my
> > > Gmail account.
> > >
> > > I am trying to get all my Gmail folders to show up directly under
> > my
> > > Evolution account, instead of a separate [Gmail] folder which
> > contains
> > > all my Gmail folders.
> > >
> > > So, instead of:
> > > > bvliegen gmail com
> > >        Inbox
> > >        |Gmail
> > >                |All
> > >                |my
> > >                |Gmail
> > >                |folders
> > >        Junk
> > >        Trash
> > >
> > > I would like:
> > > > bvliegen gmail com
> > >        Inbox
> > >        |All
> > >        |my
> > >        |Gmail
> > >        |folders
> > >        Junk
> > >        Trash
> > >
> > > Thunderbird implements this by letting me set the IMAP server
> > directory
> > > to [Gmail]. Evolution however doesn't seem to offer this
> > possibility.
> > > I hope that my question is clear. Does anybody have an idea as
> > how to
> > > accomplish what I want?
> >
> > Not sure I understand. Mine looks like this:
> >
> >     Gmail:
> >      Inbox
> >      Folder_A
> >      Folder_B
> >      [Gmail]:
> >        Bin
> >        Drafts
> >        Sent Mail
> >        etc. (shown for illustration, I don't actually subscribe to
> > all of them)
> >      Junk 
> >      Folder_X
> >      Folder_Y
> >
> > IIRC I didn't do anything special to get this. Maybe play around
> > with
> > Folder->Subscriptions?
> >
> > poc
As far as I know you may change this behaviour on the server. Just go
Settings -> Labels and a list of all "folders" is provided. You see
which ones are visible and which are hidden. 
Modify them at your guts.
You'll have to restart Evolution for it will take effect.
Hope this will help.

Rudolf