GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 313157
able to drag-move system folders (inbox etc).
Last modified: 2012-08-06 15:22:55 UTC
Please describe the problem: I accidentally dragged my IMAP server Inbox into another folder (call it BLAH) on the same IMAP server. Evolution did as it was told, and my Inbox disappeared. Logging into the mail server, I saw that my Maildir was gone, but a new directory called INBOX was in my Mail/BLAH subdirectory. I moved that back. After restarting Evolution, I subscribed once more to the INBOX folder, so it's back. It's just no longer pinned to the top of the folder list. Steps to reproduce: 1. Open an IMAP folder 2. Drag INBOX into any of the other folders Actual results: My INBOX vanishes. Expected results: A warning dialog saying "Don't do that." At the very least, I would expect the folder I dragged it to to be openable to show the INBOX folder inside of it. Does this happen every time? Only tried once, scared to try again. (I have offline email cached, so I don't want to accidentally screw it up and have to redownload all of it.) Other information: Not sure if this has any bearing, but previous to 2.2.1 I was using another 2.x version, and before that a 1.x version. So it's not a fresh 2.2.1 install by any means.
IMAP explicitly allows the renaming of the inbox; but if you do a new inbox replaces it. So your 'inbox' is probably a folder named 'inbox' but not the same as the imap inbox. the dnd thing i guess is still a bug but the above might help you repair things.
this behaviour seems very broken; you can't even copy the maildir inbox. there's 200 lines+ of nasty code in there
I get an "Error while copying folder INBOX" in 3.2.3. Cannot reproduce this - is this still an issue?
Unknown; I haven't used Evolution in quite some time. Given the amount of time elapsed, if you wish to close this bug I have no objections.
Thanks...