[sylpheed:32483] Re: Missing IMAP Subfolders

Michael B Allen ioplex at gmail.com
Wed Jul 9 06:21:46 JST 2008


On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 13:59:49 -0400, Michael B Allen wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Thomas White <taw27 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 22:08:38 -0400
>> > "Michael B Allen" <ioplex at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Just installed 1.5.0rc2 from Fedora 9 and I cannot see any existing
>> >> IMAP subfolders. Trying to "Rebuild folder tree" does nothing. It
>> >> seems I can create subfolders and from looking at the resulting
>> >> directory on the server I cannot see any difference between the folder
>> >> created (.test.sub) and the ones I'm trying to access
>> >> (.Lists.whatever).
>> >>
>> >> Is this a known problem and is there a way to fix it?
>> >
>> > This sounds exactly like something I described a few months ago:
>> > http://www.sraoss.jp/pipermail/sylpheed/2007-October/001771.html
>> >
>> > The workaround I used was to revert back to the old version (revision
>> > 1899 is the last revision in Subversion which works properly), Rebuild
>> > the folder tree, then go back to the new version.  It keeps on working
>> > fine as long as you don't rebuild the folder tree again.  Obviously
>> > this isn't a very nice workaround - my eventual 'fix' was to simply
>> > rearrange my folders not to use subfolders.
>>
>> October? God I hope that's not the same problem.
>>
>> So how does one file a bug report around here? I don't see anything
>> obvious on the website.
>
> No special bug tracking system is used. You would just post a good problem
> description (including steps on how to reproduce it) to the list.
> Could be that there is something special about your mail folder
> hierarchy or folder names.

Works fine with 2.4.0.

> FWIW, subfolders work fine here with IMAP, dovecot, Sylpheed and
> Fedora 8 (and also with public mail service providers).
>
> [22:02:08] IMAP4< 12 OK List completed.
> imap_get_part_folder_list(): get root folders
> append 'Trash'
> append 'TestFolder'
> append 'procmail.log'
> append 'msgid.cache'
> append 'INBOX'
> imap_get_part_folder_list(): get folders under 'TestFolder'
> append 'TestFolder/SubFolder'
> append 'TestFolder/SubFolder2'
> append 'TestFolder/SubFolder3'
> new folder 'TestFolder/SubFolder2' found.
> new folder 'TestFolder/SubFolder3' found.
> Setting folder info...

Is this some kind of log file output? How do I engage that?

Mike


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