Re: [Evolution] How can I override the IMAP path?

["abc abc" <denk post com>]

Hi,

I did the same you did yesterday and did it again now. However, in my log there is no occurrence of 
"NAMESPACE". In my case it is davmail, which I want to use to get access to my Exchange Archive - the only 
clients I know of being able to do that are Outlook, OWA and davmail. Overriding the IMAP path works with 
/archive in Thunderbird and Nine on Android via davmail.

> Does the namespace usage hide all but the Inbox folder, or you still
> see all folders from the top level? If I understood it correctly, then
> you want to have Inbox hidden (which is not possible, as stated above),
> but maybe I'm wrong.

When Namespace is set, I can still see all of my folders in Evolution. Whatever I set in Namespace, even 
garbage and obviously wrong things, I always see the same list of folders after the restart.

Best
denk

> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2020 at 10:04 AM
> From: "Milan Crha via evolution-list" <evolution-list gnome org>
> To: evolution-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] How can I override the IMAP path?
>
> On Thu, 2020-01-16 at 00:51 +0100, abc abc wrote:
> > I still see the usual INBOX
>
>       Hi,
> if I recall correctly, then the INBOX is a very special folder on an
> IMAP server, it's supposed to be always available.
>
> > Is there anything else I could try?
>
> I tried it here. When I run Evolution with CAMEL_DEBUG=imapx:io, then I
> see that my IMAP server (Dovecot, if it matters) returns:
>
>    [imapx:A] I/O: 'A00003 NAMESPACE'
>    [imapx:A] I/O: '* NAMESPACE (("" ".")) NIL NIL
>    A00003 OK Namespace completed (0.001 + 0.000 secs).'
>
> which means the empty namespace's directory separator is a dot. It is
> also confirmed with a LIST request:
>
> [imapx:A] I/O: 'A00009 LIST "" "*" RETURN (CHILDREN SUBSCRIBED....)'
> [imapx:A] I/O: '* LIST (\Subscribed \HasChildren \UnMarked) "." for-offline
>
> by the "." just before the "for-offline" text (it's a folder name on
> the server).
>
> Then I closed Evolution and edited corresponding .source file for this
> IMAP account with:
>
>    Namespace=for-offline.
>    UseNamespace=true
>
> (note of the "." at the end of the Namespace key).
>
> When I start Evolution, after saving my changes, I see this in the log:
>
>    [imapx:B] I/O: 'B00016 LIST "" "for-offline.*" RETURN (CHILDREN...)'
>    [imapx:A] I/O: 'A00017 LIST "" for-offline RETURN (...)'
>
> where the first searches for subfolders of the "for-offline" folder.
> There is a runtime warning shown on the evolution console:
>
>    > No matching namespace for "." for-offline
>
> but I ignore it for now. The GUI shows limited set of folders now,
> specifically:
>
>    Inbox
>    for-offline
>       sub
>    Junk
>    Trash
>
> I have created many more folders at the top level, which are hidden
> now. After this I close Evolution and edit the corresponding .source
> file and set
>
>    UseNamespace=false
>
> and when I save it and run Evolution again I see full folder structure
> as before.
>
> This is with the current development version, but it should be quite
> the same as with 3.34.x, as far as I know.
>
> Does the namespace usage hide all but the Inbox folder, or you still
> see all folders from the top level? If I understood it correctly, then
> you want to have Inbox hidden (which is not possible, as stated above),
> but maybe I'm wrong.
>
>       Bye,
>       Milan
>
> P.S.: by the way, your reply didn't go under the original thread. It
> seems your mail client doesn't preserve threading headers, or you used
> some odd function to "reply" to the mesasge. In Evolution, you can
> Reply To List (Ctrl+L) to Mailing List messages like those you receive
> here (if not referenced directly by the sender, which I did not do in
> this specific message).
>
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