Re: [Evolution] Problem with IMAP subscriptions

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Wed, 2022-06-22 at 12:52 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> I'll answer in-line

        Hi,
I can understand your common use is to reply inline, aka the Outlook
style, but right here it's not the best choice. I do not know whether
your 3.38.3 has it, maybe it does, try to use Alternative Reply
(Ctrl+Alt+R), where you can choose to reply Quoted and then make it
clear what is new text and what you reply to. Using Reply To List is
also preferred here.

> The reason why I mentioned the position relative to the Inbox is that
> the Evolution manual explicitly says that having folder with
> subfolders and messages under the Inbox can be a problem with
> Evolution

That's new to me, both that any such thing exists in the Evolution
manual and that it should cause any trouble to Evolution. I have IMAP
accounts connecting to multiple servers with folder structure under the
Inbox with no problem.

> I tried creating a new folder directly under the account into which I
> could move all these folders but, after creation, it shows up under
> the Inbox.

Does it do it for every account you have (each on a different provider)
or on a single account only? This feels like a problem on the provider
side, like sending/using something libcamel does not understand.

> I have tried setting Receive options to show only subscribed and to
> show all.  Whenever I do either of those, the folders appear and then
> disappear.

Did you close and run Evolution after such change? It can change
things. Nonetheless, I think the problem can be with the namespace the
server uses.

If you can, install the latest version from the Flathub [1] and check
how the problematic account will behave there. I know there had been
done some fixes in the namespace handling. Note that the Flatpak
version launcher "overrides" the one of the host system, thus when
you'd be running the Evolution from the GUI, it will "prefer" the
Flatpak version from the host system version.

        Bye,
        Milan

[1] https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.gnome.Evolution