[chandler-users] IMAP Folders

Brian Kirsch bkirsch at osafoundation.org
Fri Oct 26 12:26:26 PDT 2007


Hello,
That is now two users who are requesting more flexibility in the  
Chandler Folder creation logic (Jared and Poojan).

I have opened a bug so that this request can be tracked and  
appropriately placed in the future Chandler development
schedule.

https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11151


Thanks for the input,
Brian


Brian Kirsch
Internationalization Architect / Mail Service Engineer
Open Source Applications Foundation
543 Howard Street 5th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
http://www.osafoundation.org




On Oct 26, 2007, at 9:18 AM, Jared Rhine wrote:

> Jeffrey Harris wrote:
>> Unfortunately, this is just the way Thunderbird's UI handles IMAP,  
>> all
>> IMAP folders are considered subfolders of INBOX (as it happens that's
>> how they're modeled in IMAP...
>
> I don't believe this is accurate.  As Brian points out, Courier  
> (OSAF's IMAP server) doesn't support subfolders except under  
> INBOX.  Dovecot, another IMAP server, does support folders at the  
> same level as INBOX.
>
> I have the Thunderbird screen shots to prove it :)
>
> I would very much like to be able to customize where IMAP folders  
> are placed and named.  I have folder conventions that are different  
> than Chandler's defaults.
>
> A preferences setting, set in the options file, would be sufficient  
> support for me.
>
> -- Jared
>
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