Evolution's default INBOX and secure IMAP support

["E. Joshua Rigler" <Jrigler colorado edu>]

Please enlighten me if this is not the proper forum for this question...

My one major UI gripe with Evolution's email at the moment (other than a
few remaining, soon to be fixed bugs), is that I can't figure out how to
use my IMAP server as my default inbox.  I check it in the setup dialog,
and this seems to prioritize this imap folder in terms of automatic mail
checks, but whenever I click on the INBOX in the shortcut bar, it takes
me back to my local INBOX.

Is this a bug or a feature?  Is there a way around this?

Also, when can we expect to actually have secure IMAP support to test? 
If Evolution is going into a feature freeze soon, this seems like a
rather significant feature to leave out.  I use Ximian's rpm releases,
and don't (or haven't yet) compiled Evolution on my own.  Is this
perhaps simply a matter of compile-time options?

-EJR