I posted a workaround to my problem in case anybody else faces this
issue. If you have a better idea on how to fix this, please let me know.

http://francoismichonneau.net/2011/06/evolution-3-and-offlineimap/

  Cheers,
  -- François

On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 11:46 -0400, François Michonneau wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>   I use offlineimap to synchronize my mail locally with my Gmail
> account. I use evolution to read the maildir folder that offlinemap
> creates.
> 
>   I upgraded to Evolution 3.0.2 but there is something wrong. I'm not
> sure if it comes from my configuration or if it's a bug in Evolution.
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
>   When I point Evolution to my maildir folder, it creates a new hidden
> folder with the same name and empties the original folder. For
> instance my folder Alerts become .Alerts. The content of Alerts is the
> normal cur, tmp, new but all of these folders are emptied and the
> content is copied to .Alerts.
> 
>   This is however an issue because offlineimap interprets this as my
> Alerts folder being empty and removes all message from my Alerts
> folder in Gmail. How can I avoid this?
> 
>   Thanks for your help,
>   -- François

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