Subscribed Folder in IMAP not remembered

[Mehul J. Rajput]

Binary package hint: evolution

I am using evolution to access my gmail using imap.

In the subscription I have setup only some folders from gmail to be displayed. This works fine till I log out. After log out evolution reverts back to all the folders. It should retain the subscription which I had earlier selected.

[Koen (koen-beek)]

gmail does not support subscription to folders - you are automatically subscribed to all folders - this is the way google have implemented it for the moment

[Mehul J. Rajput (mehulrajput)]

If that is the case there is some inconsistency. When I click on show
only subscribed folder and then manually select only certain folders in
the Folder ---> subscription, the folders do go off, so evolution would
be storing the details some where in the memory to not display them to
me but it does not store if on the drive.

Kmail has capability to subscribe and it does retain them.

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Regards,
Mehul

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-----Original Message-----
From: Koen Beek <email address hidden>
Reply-To: Bug 159068 <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 159068] Re: Subscribed Folder in IMAP not remembered
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:26:20 -0000

gmail does not support subscription to folders - you are automatically
subscribed to all folders - this is the way google have implemented it
for the moment

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       Status: New => Invalid

[Koen (koen-beek)]

see http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78761&topic=12762

[Koen (koen-beek)]

googlemail does not support it but apparently responds with a success response when the imap client tries to (un)subscribe - so the client can only suppose it went OK

see http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-POP-and-Forwarding/msg/71651a81a7bf406a

[Mehul J. Rajput (mehulrajput)]

Is it possible to get local subscription implemented in evolution like
it is there in Kmail, where even if your IMAP does not support
subscription you can filter locally and so you see only locally
subscribed folder. I know this might not be in scope of ubuntu but it
would be good if you can pass on this enhancement to evolution team.

Thanks
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Regards,
Mehul

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-----Original Message-----
From: Koen Beek <email address hidden>
Reply-To: Bug 159068 <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 159068] Re: Subscribed Folder in IMAP not remembered
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:47:50 -0000

googlemail does not support it but apparently responds with a success
response when the imap client tries to (un)subscribe - so the client can
only suppose it went OK

see http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-POP-and-
Forwarding/msg/71651a81a7bf406a

[Koen (koen-beek)]

I don't really understand the concept of local subscription (except possibly to not show the folders in your client view ?)
I've tried it in Kmail and it does not seem to do anything for me
I'll set the bug back as undecided and let someone else from the bugsquad have a look at it

I'm not sure what the best way is to suggest a new feature in evolution

[Yann Rouillard (yann-pleiades)]

I think this bug should be Invalid or Won't fix.
The problem is not evolution, it is Google Mail which is not implementing the IMAP protocol correctly.

I suppose google will fix this issue, so I am not sure a "local subscription" feature is really useful.

[Koen (koen-beek)]

I've created a feature request upstream.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=492783

[Jörg Frings-Fürst (jff-de)]

Bug from 2007. Version not longer supportet.
Change status to Invalid (see gnome-bugs)