Re: [Geary] geary + cyrus imapd: subscribed folders?

[Michael Gratton <mike vee net>]

Hey Kristan,

On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 3:48 PM, Kristian Rink via geary-list 
<geary-list gnome org> wrote:
> once again looking into geary as I still miss an "up-to-date", 
> usable, somewhat lightweight mail client for Linux/GNOME. Geary is 
> pretty close to what I want, but unfortunately still I can't use it 
> with our corporate IMAP server (cyrus-imapd based).

This is definitely a problem for servers with large numbers of folders 
visible to an account. The cause of the CPU load you are seeing is the 
background sync that occurrs at startup and periodically when Geary is 
running. The next version will have some substantial improvements to 
how the sync process works, and it runs less often, so upgrading to 
that should help a bit. You can try out bulding and running Geary from 
git master to see if that is indeed the case.

However, to get Geary to avoid syncing all the folders on the server we 
either need to implement support for subscriptions as you say, or use 
the new namespace support that will also be in 0.13 to only sync 
folders in an account's personal namespace, i.e. avoid syncing all of 
the shared folders. Geary would ideally do both. If you're willing to 
contribute some code for either of these, I'd be happy to help you out 
with that. The latter would be a much more straightforward task than 
the former.

> Is there some way to tweak this behaviour? Expectation would be that 
> geary restricts itself to just showing the folders my account has 
> subscribed, which at least works in Thunderbird and evolution in a 
> somewhat "portable" way... :)

No at the moment. Geary was originally aimed at getting people off 
Gmail, so this wasn't initially an important use case. I'd definitely 
like to address it at some point though.

//Mike

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