| Summary: | Cannot specify IMAP server directory | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] kmail2 | Reporter: | Davor Cubranic <cubranic> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs> |
| Status: | REPORTED --- | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | bjoernv, chris-hartmann, korossy, lukas901, montel, piedro.kulman |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 4.7 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Ubuntu | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
No kmail1 doesn't have it. What do you mean by "IMAP Server directory"? If you connect using IMAP the server doesn't store anything on your computer nor does KMail try to access your home folder. Torgny, I mean the directory on the server under which the email is kept, and in Thunderbird account settings it's called exactly that: "IMAP server directory". See this screenshot: http://support.ecenica.com/files/2011/01/IMAP-Server-Directory-Namespace-Thunderbird.png Laurent, you're right that this was not present in KMail 1's account dialog, but I thought there was a way to specify something like it by hand-editing the configuration file. At any rate, it allowed me to access my mail server, where now I cannot with KMail2. The value of this feature is that it would allow KMail to work with those IMAP servers that report the namespace corresponding to the user's home directory, so that KMail does not try to index every single file and folder there. (See bug 282245.) Ahh, that is what is called the namespace. In Akonadi that is auto detected from the servers response. If I read your reply to the other bug correctly the server responds with a namespace of "~" but that should really be "~/Mail"? I don't know if it's necessarily the same thing -- otherwise why would Thunderbird have both, or why would my account setup specifically say: set personal namespace to "" and IMAP server directory to "~/Mail"? (See https://www.cs.ubc.ca/support/email-setup-department-users) I don't have KMail1 running any more for comparison, but KDE's own docs say this: "If you are using IMAP, you can optionally specify a path in the Prefix to folders field [...] so that KMail does not mix up mailbox files and other files." (http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdepim/kmail/setting-up-your-account.html) That's exactly what's happened to me, and why I couldn't use KMail2, and so I moved on to Thunderbird. Feel free to close this bug if it's a WONTFIX or add it to the TODO list if this is something you might want to do in the future. With KDE 4.10.2 I am still having the same problem ... This is a very essential IMAP setting for any serious IMAP use ... plz comment on the status, thx, piedro Could be that this problem isn't seen as a bug by the kmail developers? For example the developers of the HORDE webmailer see this as a bug from a special imap *server*: http://wiki.horde.org/ImpUWIMAPNamespaces |
Version: 4.7 (using KDE 4.7.3) OS: Linux KMail 4.7.3 on KUbuntu 11.10 (Oneiric) When accessing my mail server, KMail shows (and tries to index) all files in my home directory. The problem is that the mail server uses IMAP folder ("~/Mail"), but I have no way to specify this in KMail 2 account configuration. (E.g., with Thunderbird, and I believe KMail 1, there was an option "IMAP server directory" in account configuration dialog.) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. configure a new account using an IMAP server that uses IMAP folder. Actual Results: All files and directories under my home directory will be treated as mail folders. Expected Results: Only the actual mail folders will appear in the UI and be treated as such.