So, what's showing is the "Inbox", which some clients assume always
exists, but doesn't at this server.
We've made some tweaks during the testing phase to not irritate those
clients - we'll look at some more while in Yokohama. If you'll be there,
please show me the result you're getting. (FWIW, I'm not getting any
error badges on the clients I've set up - it would be interesting to see
how we're configuring differently, and update the wiki).
It is safe to ignore. I understand it's annoying, and we will work to
help get rid of at least the warning badge = but you might have to talk
to your client vendor before the mailbox will go completely away.
RjS
On 10/21/15 1:03 PM, Tim Wicinski wrote:
I've run into the same problem with Thunderbird (Earlybird actually as
I'm running the latest builds) as Ralph. I assume it's not possible
to remove regardless if I log in anonymously or with my account.
tim
On 10/21/15 5:27 PM, Ralph Droms wrote:
Robert - I followed the directions for Mail.app and I'm able to
access the archives from the lists I subscribed to.
I have one question: I now have an "IETF Archive" subfolder in my
Inbox folder, which shows a warning icon because the mailbox name is
invalid. Is there any way to remove that subfolder?
- Ralph
On Oct 21, 2015, at 10:55 AM 10/21/15, Robert Sparks
<rjsparks@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Testers: Thank you for your help!
Please move to the actual server now.
See <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/group/tools/trac/wiki/Imap>
(Be sure to delete and create a new account in your client - simply
changing the hostname will not work well).
RjS
On 8/27/15 3:37 PM, Robert Sparks wrote:
Folks -
We have been testing IMAP access to the IETF archives for several
days now, with volunteers from the tools-discuss and ietf chairs
lists, and it's been going well. Thank you if you've been helping
test already (and please continue to do so)!
Now we need more testers. We'd like to get a simple measure of
load, so we'd like to have as many folks as are willing accessing
the test instance at the same time with various clients during the
next week. It would be particularly helpful to have several people
using the system next Thursday.
If you're willing to take the time to do this, please drop me a
note directly (I've set reply-to on this message) so I have a feel
for how many people are participating.
Instructions for accessing the test instance are below.
Please report any issues you find directly to me. Do not open
tickets with the secretariat. Be aware that there are known issues
with the data on the test instance (some lists have blank or
truncated messages) that have not yet been addressed - it would be
good to report any more you find to me, but they won't get fixed
immediately.
Please use tools-discuss@xxxxxxxx for general conversation. If you
have feature requests, that's a good place to send them. One
request we've had from a few testers so far is to provide an
additional shared folder with a mailbox for each list that has only
the "recent" messages from that list - perhaps the last 6 months.
It would be good to hear from folks, after they've tried what's
there now, whether that would be useful to spend development time
on, or if that time would be better spent elsewhere.
The test instance is getting mail with only a slight delay after it
comes through the lists - you should see current traffic.
Please resist the temptation to download the entire archive of
every list. I've done it - it's huge (~28G when MailMate does it)
and it it's a severe torture test for clients. Interrupt your
client if it starts trying to do that to you. Caching a copy of
this test instance will not be useful when we deploy the production
instance.
Instead, what would help us the most is to configure your client to
access those lists you normally subscribe to, and to spend some
time next week browsing and searching those lists and exploring a
few lists that are new to you.
You can find the details for where the test instance is listening,
and rudimentary instructions for setting up a few clients, at
<http://trac.tools.ietf.org/group/tools/trac/wiki/ImapTesting>.
Please improve that page as you see the opportunity.
Thanks in advance for any time you can give this.
RjS