Re: Tinymail can't create folders on my IMAP server

[Armin Burgmeier <armin arbur net>]

On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 11:05 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 17:19 +0200, Armin Burgmeier wrote:
> > I cannot create new folders with tinymail on the arbur.net IMAP server
> > (it is a shared one, so I don't have direct access to it, but I can
> > probably find out some more information if required), though it works on
> > the openismus.com one. I figured out that if I replace "/" by NULL in
> > the call to camel_store_create_folder() in
> > tny_camel_store_account_create_folder_default() at line 856 of
> > tny-camel-store-account.c,
> > 
> > info = camel_store_create_folder (store, NULL /* "/" */, name, &ex);
> 
> I think "" or NULL is fine (if I look at the code in Camel's IMAP
> provider). So if it works on all other IMAP servers too (which I think
> it does), feel free to patch the "/" to a NULL or a "" indeed.
> 
> Can you create subfolders? Because the create_folder with parent = "/"
> is only for root folders.

Yes, creating subfolders works smoothly.

> > creating folders works on both accounts (as it works with evolution,
> > btw). However, I am not sure what the "right way" is neither am I sure
> > whether it breaks folder creation on yet another server. Is there a
> > special reason why "/" is used as parent folder instead of NULL?

Armin