Re: [Evolution] imap path prefix

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2017-10-23 at 18:54 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-10-23 at 18:04 +0200, bob thi wrote:
> > My goal is to have all the mail boxes on the same level of the root
> > and eliminate the subfolders.
>
>       Hi,
> I see. I'm afraid that they are under Inbox and the Inbox is an "always
> added folder", then causing subfolders of Inbox shown on the same level
> as Inbox is not possible, at least not in the Evolution.
>
> By the way, the server itself already responses that your personal
> namespace is "Inbox.":
> > > * NAMESPACE (("INBOX." ".")) (("user." ".")) (("" "."))

My memory of this is hazy, but I think the original IMAP standard
specifies Inbox as the root of all the user's mailboxes, because that's
the way it was done at Carnegie-Mellon. Only later did IMAP servers
offer the option of an "anonymous root", which I suspect is now more
common. If so, the OP should talk to his mail admins to see if they are
willing to change this. IIRC it's a system-wide change so they may not
want to.

poc