Can no longer create IMAP folders

[Jamie Strandboge]

Recent versions of evolution took away the ability to create IMAP folders. This seemed to work with some versions of 3.x, but this has been broken for (at least) a few weeks. My IMAP configuration has not changed and I do not see any errors on the IMAP server.

Steps to reproduce:
1. connect to an IMAP server (in my case, dovecot on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS)
2. Right-click on the Inbox for the IMAP account (can also do 'File/New/Mail Folder' or 'New/Mail Folder'-- none work)
3. select 'New folder...'
4. At this point I am presented with the 'Create FOlder' dialog box, but under 'Specify where to create the folder' I only have 'On the computer' and 'Search Folders'

Right now I have to create folder on the server for them to show up in evolution, but this is highly undesirable.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: evolution 3.2.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Sep 29 13:51:51 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110425.2)
SourcePackage: evolution
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-07-23 (68 days ago)

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

If I change my server type in evolution from IMAP to IMAP+, it seems to work.

[Tony Maro (tonymaro)]

I can confirm the issue. I have noticed though that in IMAP+ on one of my machines it will create the folder and it's saved on the IMAP server, but it doesn't show in the treeview inside Evolution until you close and restart Evolution - you can't even refresh the subscription list to see it.

On my other machine - that appears to be configured identically - it looks like it creates the folder but the folder is never actually created on the server. On this one when I watch the Cyrus server logs it never shows any activity from the Evolution client.

I'm beginning to see why they went with Thunderbird as the default mail client now.

Running Evolution 3.2.0 from Oneiric.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Trifon Trifonov (triffon)]

In my case when I tried to switch to IMAP+ the folders stopped loading at all. Perhaps my server doesn't support it, but this leaves me without the possibility to create IMAP folders via Evolution.

Using Evolution 3.2. in Oneiric.