On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:05, Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi> wrote: > On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 10:09 -0500, Phil Howard wrote: >> Is IMAP supposed to be case sensitive or case in-sensitive? > > Case sensitive, except for INBOX. (Or if the server is using > case-insensitive filesystem then they're case-insensitive.)
So what will Dovecot do when both directories exist: .INBOX.Spam and .INBOX.spam >> It seemed >> it would be case sensitive because I've had different cases of >> folders. But today I found I had two folders "Spam" and "spam", with >> directories ".INBOX.Spam" and ".INBOX.spam" on the server. Messages >> existed in each directory on the server and they were different. The >> messages could be read from Evolution. However, the list of messages >> had info mixed up between the folders. I then selected all messages >> in one of the folders and trashed them (click on trash icon). >> Messages disappeared in BOTH folders. On the server, after a couple >> minutes delay, messages in BOTH directories were flagged "T". That >> doesn't seem right. > > My guess is that Evolution messes this up. And it might be confused by odd data it gets due to both above directories existing. >> Unfortunately, there seems to be no operation in Evolution to tell it >> to discard its own cache. > > rm -rf ~/.evolution/mail/imap/ Thanks. I'll give that a try soon. -- sHiFt HaPpEnS!