[26856] in Athena Bugs
Evolution (on both Sun and Linux) Athena 9.4.26
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Thu May 18 18:00:54 2006
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From: William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 17:42:53 -0400
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I had a mail folder "RHN-RHE" with messages and subfolders.
I created it in Evolution. It lived under the folder
"Projects" (which had no messages,
only sub-folders.)
Using Apple Mail, I moved the folder "RHN-RHE" to under a new folder,
"SWRT" which had both messages and folders.
Thereafter, Evoution (and I tried this both on Suns and Linux, and I
tried moving aside various cache files, (.evolution/mail/
{imap,views,config}). What Evolution would see
is a Folder "RHN-RHE" with NO sub-folders.
I could view the messages in RHN-RHE just fine.
I could create new folders in RHN-RHE and those would be seen.
If I tried to re-create one of the invisible sub-folders, Evolution
would
dutifully report the IMAP server error that the folder already existed,
but it would NOT show me the folder.
Using Apple Mail, I moved "RHN-RHE" back to under Projects.
Now evolution sees all the messages and sub-folders just fine.
Note also that I had someone check the raw contents of the IMAP
server, and no strangeness about RHN-RHE in its new location could be
found.
So Evolution is picky.
You sometimes can't use other applications to move folders around
that it has created.
-wdc
