if this is purely on the imap server (or u do all mail via said server) then as jeff said, it is most likely a server issue.
if some mail is accessed via evolution through local disk i/o (or nfs), then softlinks are not and never were suppopted configuration. w/ 1.2 u can just point to any arbitrary folder tree anyway. On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 01:34, Mark R. Bowyer wrote: > On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 02:06, Not Zed wrote: > > > > just committed a big imap patch to cvs evo. <SNIP> > > I was going to post to this list about this, and your email gives me a > good excuse to do it now. ;O) > > Around 1.0.8, a change was made to the way folders are seen by the IMAP > system, in that (a) soft links are no longer followed; and (b) the > building of the "new folder" window suddenly sped up by about 100 > times. While I found (b) very nice indeed, since I'm regularly > Ctrl-Alt-E -ing to create a new folder to contain emails on new subjects > (specifically new calls - I do technical support), I found (a) a > complete pain. While I keep all my mail folders in a directory in my > (network mounted) home, for backup and access reasons, I move "old" > folders into another directory fairly regularly, to keep my disk usage > reasonable - and to do this I made a soft link to a directory on a local > disk. This used to work fine on Evo < 1.0.8, and I was able to see the > directory of "old" folders in the folder view, and open it to look at > old emails and drop the occasional new email that needed to go in one of > them easily. > > Now I don't even see links, and if I create a directory and link all the > folders within it, then I see an empty folder, not one with more folders > in. So to view or file emails in these "old" folders I now have to fire > up another email tool =O( I'm running on Solaris BTW, but I don't think > that's relevant. I've tried linking to folders on the same mount point > to ensure this isn't a problem with the IMAP server or the client and > NFS mounting. > > Was this a design decision, or just a result of a recoding that isn't > intended? And if the latter, can it/is it fixed? I'm not using > 1.1.99.x yet coz I can't get the spell-checker working with it, and I've > become addicted to it. But this fix would be much more important to > me. The last 1.1.99 build I tried, though, I couldn't really get *any* > of my folders seen... =O( > > Ta, > --------My opinion - Not sane, intelligent or necessarily useful-------- > o o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > /v\ark R. Bowyer http://www.bowyer.screaming.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] > `-' ------------------------------------------------------ > /"\ > \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign fingerprint = 7924 9E9E 7B91 225E B065 > X Against HTML Mail 1024D/19BC72F6 39D0 551D ABE6 1514 0DC1 > / \ _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
