tags 372899 confirmed fixed-upstream thanks On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 02:38:10PM +0200, Maik Zumstrull wrote: > Package: sylpheed-claws-gtk2 > Version: 2.2.0-1 > Severity: normal > > Wenn adding a new IMAP mailbox, s-c checks if the folders Trash, Queue, Drafts > and Sent exist on the server. > If not, they are created without asking for permission. > > The problem with that is that folders for most of these purposes already exist > on my IMAP mailbox, but they have German names (Geloescht, Entwuerfe, > Gesendet). They need to have German names because the mailbox is accessed in > parallel by a webinterface and a voice/fax messaging solution, which expect > the German names, and I can't change that. > > So, right now the workflow to use this account with s-c is the following: > - Add the account and let s-c build the folderlist > - Change the folders for Drafts, Queue, Sent, Trash to the correct ones > - Exit s-c > - Delete the folders s-c created on the IMAP server using the webinterface > (s-c refuses to delete any of the "special" folders, even if the specific > functionality has already been reassigned to a different folder) > - Manually delete the entries for the folders created by s-c from > folderlist.xml (even after the folders are gone from the server, s-c insists > they exist; messages from the server that they don't exist are quietly > ignored for "special" folders, even though the specific functionality > etc...) > > Steps three through five have to repeated every time I feel like rebuilding > the > folderlist in s-c. > > I think s-c should ask on creation of an IMAP account whether I want to > a) Create the special folders on the server (assuming they don't exist), > b) Use existing folders, local or on this or some other account, for these > purposes, > c) Not have these special folders at all. > > I'm classifying this report "normal" instead of "whishlist" because the way > special folders are handled right now seems not only lacking features, but > broken. I shouldn't have to do all of the above just to delete a folder that > happens to be named "Sent", especially not if the Sent folder functionality is > not even assigned to that folder anymore.
Upstream CVS allows now redefining folder types via GUI, so you can assign it to your existing folders and delete the ones created. This feature will be available in the next release, 2.4.0, in a few weeks or so. Stay tuned ;-) -- Ricardo Mones ~ Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it. Richard Feynman
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