I finally discovered a workaround how to this problem, and found out why this
may not happen to many people:
Usually, when set to "subscription only", Thunderbird also subscribes to
intermediary folders.
BUT, the important feature of intermediary folders is that they get a final
slash in their subscription entry!
So:
/Mail/Private/
would be an intermediary folder
/Mail/Private/Trixi
would be a message-only folder.
This is how Thunderbird distinguishes the two.
Now for some reason, I used Squirrelmail to do the folder subscription (I had
TBird on show all folders, which didn't work very well for various reasons), but
Squirrelmail does not add the trailing slash.
So, for me the problem is solved now, I know that I just need to create the
folders in TBird, and if something goes wrong, I just manually add the missing
slash.
I don't know whether the IMAP spec has something to say about this (probably
not), but for Squirrelmail it would be a convenience to also add the slash...
-m
On Dienstag, 07. Juni 2005 17:08:00, Jonathan Angliss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello Michael Wimmer,
On Tuesday, June 07, 2005, you wrote:
Hi,
Jonathan Angliss wrote:
Hello Michael Wimmer,
On Thursday, June 02, 2005, you wrote:
[..]
Obviously, uw-imapd does not report non-subscribed parent folders as
\NoSelect. I think for uw, they don't really exist since they are
just folders in a unix folder hierarchy.
I believe they do exist, they are just flagged as \NoSelect in the
LIST response.
I ran TEST_8 for the LIST response, and you are right they are reported as
\NoSelect.
I'm not sure I'll be able to get this resolved before 1.4.5 as I think
it might require some fairly chunky code changes, as the code runs
through the folders that /are/ there, and then tries to find the
children of the ones that are in the list... You need the reverse of
it.
Is this a bug in Thunderbird, in Squirrelmail,
Actually both. Thunderbird shouldn't let you select a folder that is
marked as \NoSelect. That is a bug. SquirrelMail should be showing the
folders properly, but isn't... there is another bug.
or is it something which isn't sufficiently specified in the IMAP
spec?
The clients display of the folder tree is up to the client, and the
client author I guess... I don't believe the IMAP specifies how a
client should be displaying folders, just how folders should be
treated.
I wonder why nobody reported this before - am I the only one to use
both Squirrelmail and Thunderbird with uw-imap (which seems to be
the only one to have \NoSelect intermediary folders)?
Probably not, but you're probably one of a few that has the folders
unsubscribed because of Thunderbird's bug in folder handling.
Michael
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