On Monday 18 June 2012 12.54:03 Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: > On Monday, June 18, 2012 12:56:01 AM Timothy Murphy wrote: > > Rex Dieter wrote: > > >> When I click on a top-level account in KMail on an IMAP client, > > >> the File->New->Add Folder option is greyed out, > > >> although it is available to create a sub-folder of an existing folder. > > > > > > Maybe seeing this? > > > > > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218935 > > > > Thanks. > > > > I saw someone (possibly you?) mentioned another bugzilla, > > which mentioned that the problem was solved > > in a version of KMail coming shortly. > > My colleague Christian Mollekopf (in CC:) will work / has worked on > resolving this issue / these issues, IIRC. I'll let him speak for himself. > Hey, A workaround has been commited already (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=292418, fixed in 4.8.5), which should at least allow creating toplevel folders, however acl's and such are still not checked properly. I opened a bug for that: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302139 Cheers, Christian > A client needs to take two things into account for this "thing" that is > root- level folders and sub-folders, which are; > > - First, the result of the NAMESPACE command. The response to this command > lists the roots and hierarchy separators for personal, 'other users' and > zero or more 'shared' namespaces. > > The traditional root for one's personal namespace has been INBOX, but > evolvement from the legacy NNTP name-space and convention has resulted in > both the use of alternative namespace (INBOX is a root-level folder, but > sub- folders of INBOX are presented as root-level folders as well - they > are often still folder/sub-folder on the mail server's filesystem), as well > as the '/' hierarchy separator (so mailbox names can contain dots '.' > characters). > > - Second, as a consequence of using alternative namespaces, "INBOX" cannot > contain any "sub-folders" - "sub-folders" being presented as root-level > folders and all. To this end a \NoInferiors flag is included in the LIST / > LSUB command responses, indicating no child folders can be created. > > I hope this clarifies a bit, where things can go wrong. > > Kind regards, > > Jeroen van Meeuwen
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