Folder Support

[Achim Christ]

Need support to notify of messages in sub-folders of an IMAP account. Currently, only messages in the top-level folder will trigger a notification / be visible in messaging menu.

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

Thank you for the report! I will look at it.

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

Fix committed!
Now you can extra folders using 'ExtraFolders' option of the configuration file (~/.config/unity-mail.conf).

Add a line like this:
ExtraFolders = user@domain:folder1, user@domain:folder2 ...etc

For GMail "All Mail" folder: "<email address hidden>:[Gmail]/All Mail" will include it.

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

PPA upload of unity-mail 0.9.1.2 closes this bug.

[Achim Christ (achim-christ)]

Doesn't seem to work for me (I don't use Gmail but by own IMAP server) - I assume the syntax is:
ExtraFolders = login:folder

Is there any way to debug this? Any log file?

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

@Achim: not login:folder, but login@host:folder, where host is your
imap server hostname with or without the "imap." prefix.

[benny (blietzau)]

I get an Exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/unity-mail", line 721, in <module>
    UnityMail()
  File "/usr/bin/unity-mail", line 352, in __init__
    self.init_config()
  File "/usr/bin/unity-mail", line 415, in init_config
    config = ConfigFile(config_dir+'/unity-mail.conf')
  File "/usr/bin/unity-mail", line 300, in __init__
    self.read(filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/configparser.py", line 689, in read
    self._read(fp, filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/configparser.py", line 1051, in _read
    raise MissingSectionHeaderError(fpname, lineno, line)
configparser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers.
file: /home/benjamin/.config/unity-mail.conf, line: 1
'ExtraFolders = <email address hidden>:Unbekannt\n'

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

You should add "[General]" line (without quotes) at the top of the file.

[benny (blietzau)]

Thanks. It works.