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

["abc abc" <denk post com>]

Hi again,

> Aha, it might be one of those archive-related folders from here [1].
> The evolution-ews can open any folder, it only needs to know the folder
> ID. This could be used to open it as "Subscribe to folder of other
> user", which is not exactly the same thing, but it would work. I just
> made a change in evolution-ews [2] (for 3.35.90+) to allow using
> distinguished folder names there. My server doesn't have enabled
> archive folders, thus I do not know whether it would work for you. In
> any case, it's rather a workaround.

This worked. I can now access my archive. Thanks for that, I'll try it out now to see how it works out.

Regarding imapx and namespace  I will report a bug as soon as I have time.

Best
denk

> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2020 at 10:18 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 Fri, 2020-01-17 at 08:27 +0100, abc abc wrote:
> > I did the same you did yesterday and did it again now. However, in my
> > log there is no occurrence of "NAMESPACE".
>
>       Hi,
> it can be the DAVMail doesn't support NAMESPACE capability. I'd expect
> it works in Evolution even without it, but maybe not.
>
> > 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.
>
> Aha, it might be one of those archive-related folders from here [1].
> The evolution-ews can open any folder, it only needs to know the folder
> ID. This could be used to open it as "Subscribe to folder of other
> user", which is not exactly the same thing, but it would work. I just
> made a change in evolution-ews [2] (for 3.35.90+) to allow using
> distinguished folder names there. My server doesn't have enabled
> archive folders, thus I do not know whether it would work for you. In
> any case, it's rather a workaround.
>
> I think it might be interesting to have an option to enable/disable
> certain distinguished folders to be shown beside other folders,
> possibly a set of checkboxes in the Mail account Properties would do
> it, thus, if you can, feel free to file a bug against
> evolution-ews [3] to add such thing. Maybe other users would benefit
> from it too.
>
> > Overriding the IMAP path works with /archive in Thunderbird and Nine
> > on Android via davmail.
>
> Weird, I'm wondering what Evolution can do differently. Maybe it's a
> bug in the IMAPx code (which resides in evolution-data-server, not in
> evolution itself), when the NAMESPACE capability is not supported by
> the IMAP server. Feel free to file a bug [4], thus someone can look on
> it.
>       Thanks and bye,
>       Milan
>
> [1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/client-developer/web-service-reference/distinguishedfolderid
> [2] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-ews/commit/373e3dbb
> [3] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-ews/issues/new
> [4] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-data-server/issues/new
>
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