[imp] question about requiring subscription to IMAP folders

[francis picabia]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org> wrote:
> Quoting francis picabia <fpicabia at gmail.com>:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Quoting francis picabia <fpicabia at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> Good afternoon,
>>>>
>>>> I am running Horde 4 and IMP 5.
>>>>
>>>> Right now, our users must subscribe to their subfolders
>>>> before they will see them.
>>>>
>>>> I wonder if this is necessary.  I see this in the user FAQ on the wiki:
>>>>
>>>> http://wiki.horde.org/FAQ/User/IMP?referrer=FAQ%2FUser#toc9
>>>>
>>>> I would like to achieve the scenario described in the second paragraph:
>>>>
>>>> "If your site's IMP configuration allows you to use multiple folders
>>>> but does not require you to subscribe to the ones you wish to access,
>>>> you will always see all of your folders in IMP's folder lists."
>>>>
>>>> I searched for where to do this and do not see a clear answer. But I
>>>> have a guess.
>>>>
>>>> In imp/config/prefs.php I see:
>>>>
>>>> $_prefs['subscribe'] = array(
>>>>    'value' => 1,
>>>>    'type' => 'checkbox',
>>>>    'desc' => _("Use IMAP folder subscriptions?")
>>>> );
>>>>
>>>> Should I try another value in there such as 0, would it cause IMAP
>>>> folders to be not allowed at all, or would it simply remove the need
>>>> to subscribe?
>>>
>>> A false value for subscribe causes IMP to completely ignore IMAP
>>> subscription status on the server.
>>>
>>>> Would this be picked up if I made a prefs.local.php containing:
>>>>
>>>> $_prefs['subscribe'] = array(
>>>>    'value' => 0,
>>>>    'type' => 'checkbox',
>>>>    'desc' => _("Use IMAP folder subscriptions?")
>>>> );
>>>
>>> You probably want this instead:
>>>
>>> $_prefs['subscribe']['value'] = 0;
>>> $_prefs['subscribe']['locked'] = true;
>>>
>>> This prevents users from changing the value.  And you should set only
>>> individual properties of the array, rather than overwriting the array,
>>> since
>>> this method will ensure that any changes made to the prefs.php file in
>>> the
>>> future OTHER than the values you have overwritten will be used.
>>>
>>
>> This is working well.  I have another related question.
>>
>> For my test user I found the Preferences for Folder Display had a
>> check for  "use IMAP folder subscriptions".  I don't remember if I had
>> set that, but the default might have been this is checked.  Is there a
>> way to make it unchecked for all users so that the other settings are
>> causing all subfolders to display?
>
> If a user has already set a preference value, you will need to manually
> remove these entries from the preference backend.  These entries take
> precedence over the default entries in the prefs.php file, even if the entry
> is locked.
>
> michael

Good afternoon,

This is excellent information.

I have checked with the following query:

select * from horde_prefs where pref_scope='imp' and pref_name='subscribe';

I see only my test user and one other user has this set (both 0), so
there are no records normally.  I assume the setting in
prefs.local.php would take hold.

Have a good day.