GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 704299
Explain to use physical folders for GMail accounts
Last modified: 2015-03-09 02:07:14 UTC
<andre> Evolution sometimes takes ages trying to update virtual folders (Trash, Junk) on my Gmail (IMAP+) account in 3.8.3. <andre> (I know I could also point to physical folders I guess now in the preferences, but I have no idea what is recommended for GMail IMAP.) <mbarnes> for GMail IMAP definitely physical folders <mbarnes> that's primarily why I even bothered adding the feature <andre> I also found https://wiki.gnome.org/Evolution/Debugging while googling aroung <andre> which is way better than http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/bugs.shtml <andre> so I guess it should be added there <mbarnes> once I implement the SPECIAL-USE IMAP extension, GMail accounts should auto-configure that way <andre> mbarnes, so what does that mean? that I should create a physical folder in Gmail called Trash myself, to point to it from the account preferences? <andre> I really wonder how to explain this to a normal user. Like me. <mbarnes> GMail already gives you Trash and Spam folders <mbarnes> just point Evolution to them <andre> yeah, under "[GMail]". Which I have never used so far.
Should probably be added to https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/3.9/email-access-gmail-imap-account.html.en but also definitely mentioned on https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/3.9/mail-account-manage-imap-plus.html.en#defaults Edit > Preferences > Mail Accounts > Edit > Defaults > Special Folders: Use a Real Folder for Trash: accountname/[GMail]/Trash Use a Real Folder for Junk: accountname/[GMail]/Spam ----- <andre> so if I set a physical trash folder, why does Evolution still display its own vfolder for Trash for the GMail account? <mbarnes> you have to restart evolution, which I fixed recently in 3.9
https://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/commit/?id=0c6a1bbc2b0e1e5ef0af1e8952b83bb83e2b0ab1