[imp] Display of folders from Cyrus IMAPD

Michael M Slusarz slusarz at horde.org
Thu Apr 20 11:50:06 PDT 2006


Quoting Aleksandar Milivojevic <alex at milivojevic.org>:

> In the old versions of IMP (4.0.x and older), IMP was displaying the
> folders from my Cyrus servers like:
>
> INBOX
>     Subfolder1
>     Subfolder2
> Shared folder
>
> Which is the way folders exist on IMAP server, the way they are
> reported by IMAP server, and the way every mail client in known
> universe (that I've been using so far) displays them.
>
> IMP 4.1 attempts to be "smart" and autodetect things.  And as soon as
> it smells Cyrus on the other side it starts displaying my folders as:
>
> INBOX
> Subfolder1
> Subfolder2
> Shared folder
>
> Basically same braindamaged thing as when setting "namespace" option
> to 'INBOX.' in older versions of IMP.
>
> This is extremely confusing.  My folders appear at the same level as
> the shared folders...  If one of my folders has same name as one of
> the shared folders, there's no way to tell which is which in IMP 4.1.
> Any way to get old behaviour back?  I do want to see my folders as
> subfolders of INBOX (the way they exist on my IMAP server).

See http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=2422.  This is expected, and  
preferred, behavior.

michael

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