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? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
