GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 313318
Evolution doesn't let me see Inbox with Courier IMAP server
Last modified: 2013-09-13 00:46:52 UTC
Version details: 2.3.7 ubuntu breezy I click in Inbox and nothing shows in the list of messages. However, looking at folder properties of Inbox, the read and unread message counts appear correct. Now I switched to a dovecot server I had running in a different port, and now Inbox shows up correctly. The server that Evo doesn't work with is courier-imap-4.0.2-1.3. However, it was working perfectly, only in the last couple of weeks or so did it stop working.
Same problem here; did not try Dovecot. However, the messagelist of subfolders of Inbox IS shown.
Right, I forgot to mention that. Subfolders display fine; it's only the root Inbox folder that doesn't show any messages. As a workaround, I also tried to create a vFolder from Inbox, but the vFolder editor didn't even let me _select_ Inbox as source.
1. is it subscribed. 2. do you have another folder named inbox (probably with different case) which is overlaying it with different content?
run evolution from a terminal with CAMEL_DEBUG=all set in the environment, and attach the output of any LISTand LSUB commands (it will be at the start)
Created attachment 50731 [details] requested LIST and LSUB output of evolution Here's my log (not the OP).
answers to comment #3: 1. yes 2. no: jochem@diodontis [18:57] [~] % ls -al Maildir |grep -i inbox jochem@diodontis [18:57] [~] %
sending : A00003 LIST "" INBOX. received: * LIST (\Marked \HasChildren) "." "INBOX" received: A00003 OK LIST completed sending : A00004 LSUB "" INBOX. received: * LSUB (\Noselect \HasChildren) "." "INBOX" Well the server is saying you can't select inbox.
I agree it looks like a server bug. However, this is not going to look good to end users; it is a regression from evolution 1.2, since it used to work just fine. Maybe evolution could open an exception for INBOX? selectable = (\Noselect not in server_flags) or folder_name == 'INBOX'
you just need to subscribe to your INBOX. Really.
Oh, right, subscribing INBOX, which is now _inside_ Inbox, did let me see Inbox, but: 1- Users migrating to the new Evolution version will _never_ find this solution; 2- Now I get Inbox and Inbox->INBOX, the latter one doesn't work, giving me the error "No such folder INBOX/INBOX".
It seems just unsubscribing and re-subscribing (Folder->Subscriptions) Inbox and subfolders fixes the problem too