Re: [Evolution] Problem with IMAP subscriptions

["John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan opensourcedevel com>]

On Wed, 2022-06-22 at 23:04 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote:
> 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.
Thanks for the guidance.
> > 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.
This may be a clue as to what is happening. It is a single provider.  I
contacted them and they replied that one needs to use a namespace set
to INBOX and that Evolution removed the ability to do that in the GUI.
They instructed me to edit the .source file and that appears to be
working.
> > 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
>
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