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Bug 317919 - Selecting folder with subfolders shows alert
Selecting folder with subfolders shows alert
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.4.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-10-04 12:40 UTC by Crispin Flowerday (not receiving bugmail)
Modified: 2008-11-19 14:53 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Crispin Flowerday (not receiving bugmail) 2005-10-04 12:40:35 UTC
Distribution/Version: Ubuntu/Breezy

I have an IMAP account which has the following layout:

  + INBOX
  + Stuff
    + Sub folder 1
    + Sub folder 2


The Stuff folder doesn't contain any emails, and isn't selectable, but every
time you click on it (e.g. by accident or using the arrow keys to scroll through
the folder) I get a really annoying popup window saying:

--
Error while Opening folder imap://crispin@imap/Stuff;noselect=yes.

No such folder Stuff
--

This popup should not be shown.
Comment 1 Poornima 2006-06-20 10:18:52 UTC
paste CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBUG traces of evolution, that would help to find out y this error message popsup
Comment 2 Crispin Flowerday (not receiving bugmail) 2006-07-03 19:27:26 UTC
This is the portion of the trace from when clicking on the folder (this would be like clicking on 'Stuff' in the folder hirearchy above):


CamelStore('imap://xxxxxx@imap.theflowerdays.com/;command=ssh%20-C%20-l%20%25u%20%25h%20exec%20/usr/sbin/imapd;use_ssl=always;check_all;use_lsub;filter;filter_junk'):get_folder('Linux', 0) = 0x87c6ad4
< b271cbb0 >
sending : A00060 SELECT Linux
received: A00060 NO SELECT failed: Can't open Linux: not a selectable mailbox
CamelException.setv(0x8bbe0d0, 301, 'IMAP command failed: SELECT failed: Can't open Linux: not a selectable mailbox')
Comment 3 Matthew Barnes 2008-11-19 14:53:53 UTC
Errors are now shown in the status bar, and you have to click the status bar to show the full error dialog.  So the intrusive aspect of this is addressed now (though I still think we could do better).

The error message itself is coming from the IMAP server, and those errors should be reported to the user.  I don't think we should attempt the losing battle of trying to parse and act on server error descriptions.

Closing as FIXED.