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Bug 582816 - Error with fake IMAP folder containing only other folders
Error with fake IMAP folder containing only other folders
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
3.0.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
: 257172 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-05-15 20:24 UTC by bernie
Modified: 2013-08-19 14:56 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.91/3.0


Description bernie 2009-05-15 20:24:49 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
On my IMAP account, I have several folders nested inside
other folders that aren't catual maildirs.

Evolution gets confused by this setup and repeatedly
reports errors like this one:

Could not open 'FDO':
No such folder FDO
Changes made to this folder will not be resynchronized.

My IMAP server is Dovecot.


Steps to reproduce:



Actual results:


Expected results:


Does this happen every time?


Other information:
Comment 1 André Klapper 2009-05-16 01:05:41 UTC 
Can you please provide an example setup?
Which DoveCot version?
Comment 2 bernie 2009-05-16 05:59:45 UTC 
For instance, I have three Maildirs like so:

 drwx------ 5 bernie bernie 1024 May 14 15:03 .FDO.cairo/
 drwx------ 5 bernie bernie 1024 May 14 15:03 .FDO.xcb/
 drwx------ 5 bernie bernie 1024 May 14 15:03 .FDO.xorg/

There's no .FDO maildir folder, but Evolution forges one and
then complains when trying to access it.

This is dovecot-1.1.10-1.fc10.i386.
Comment 3 bernie 2009-06-16 08:15:34 UTC 
Confirmed in 2.27.2.
Comment 4 Joachim Breitner 2011-08-24 12:52:23 UTC 
Confirmed in 3.0.2. And this seems to be a duplicate of #257172.
Comment 5 André Klapper 2012-01-16 12:37:38 UTC 
*** Bug 257172 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Joachim Breitner 2012-01-16 13:04:55 UTC 
Hmm, I cannot reproduce it with 3.2.2 any more, maybe it is fixed. New behaviour is to show the Right Click menu, but an operation like “Properties” throws errors. Slightly better, but not perfect.

Also, after selecting the folder, the message pane is now just empty, which is sensible. In a real, but empty folder, the message pane shows “There are no messages here” (self-back-translated), so maybe it would be possible to give a corresponding message in a folder-only folder as well. Or make it not selectable.
Comment 7 Matthew Barnes 2013-08-19 14:56:32 UTC 
Closing as OBSOLETE since this was filed against the legacy IMAP backend which was retired in 3.8.  Reopen if this issue is still present in Evolution 3.8 or later.