Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> In my case the parent account is the top-level folder
"alfred".
> When I right-click on this on my laptop and go to Manage Local
> Subscriptions
> I see "alfred" and "inbox" listed, but not "Spam".
> If I right-click on "alfred" and go to Serverside Subscriptions
> then "Spam" is listed (it is the only item).
>
> If I ssh to my server and run kmail there then I can see the Spam folder,
> I can add to or remove emails from it,
> and it is listed in Local Subscriptions.
I wouldn't attribute any special significance to that. Running
Kmail on
the server is definitely not the way to manage IMAP folders, even if
they're on the same machine. IMAP folders are handled by the server code
(Dovecote in your case) and should normally only be manipulated through
IMAP protocol commands.
Thanks as ever for your help.
I set up KMail on the server to go through dovecot on the server.
This seemed to work as expected.
> I have tried creating other folders, both on the laptop and on
the
> server, and the outcome is always the same.
> I've also tried re-installing KMail.
Once again, if you're not doing this via IMAP commands to
Dovecote, I have
no idea what the effect might be.
Creating a KMail folder on the laptop
does have the effect of adding the name
to ~/Maildir/subscriptions on the server,
so I assume it is going through dovecot.
The server's view of what it shows to
clients as "folders" may not even be directly related to file system
directories. It depends on how the server is implemented. If you're lucky,
it will sort of work, but I wouldn't count on it unless you rèally
understand Dovecote. Think of it as editing a database file without
involving the database handler.
Well, I'll see if I can add a folder without involving KMail anywhere.
When I ran Evolution on the laptop, it saw the Spam folder.
On Evo you subscribe/unsubscribe to folders via a drop down menu
under
Folders. That shows you all the folders the server knows about. I don't
know how this compares to Kmail.
I didn't have to subscribe to the folder;
it was already shown.
By every test I've tried, the folder seems to be properly set up
on the dovecot server.
It's just that I don't see it on my laptop with KMail.
I'm wondering now if KMail is not updating something.
Could it have cached an old idea of the dovecot setup?
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