On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 19:47, Tom Jennings wrote: > I'm wondering if there's a way to selectively control which folders are > scanned for new email, and which are not, rather than an all-off or > all-on mode. <...> > Can I do this? There's this "subscribe to folder" phrase bandied about > temptingly in menus and such but I find no menu, comman, documentationor > web page about it as a concept.
It's lifted directly from the IMAP specification (http://www.faqs.org/rfc/rfc3501.txt) where it's vaguely defined as meaning 'active' but without any clue as the actual interpretation of that. Sometimes it's taken to mean that subscribed folders are the _only_ folders we're interested in, and all others should be totally ignored -- but if we've unchecked the option 'Show only subscribed folders' then that interpretation doesn't make sense. In fact, the current implementation in Evolution is that if you have that option turned off, subscribing to folders makes no difference at all. I wonder if it would be sensible, in the case where 'Show only subscribed folders' is turned off, to have an option 'Check for mail in only subscribed folders'? I'd certainly find that useful too. _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
