[chandler-users] Chandler IMAP folders not showing up in Thunderbird

[Brian Kirsch]

Hey Guys,
How's it going.

Unless something has been changed in the code since Preview, Chandler  
does subscribe to
the IMAP folders it creates.

I did a brief read of the current parcels.imap code and still see the  
method:

def _createOrSubscribe(self, responses, status, type, completed):
which contains:
if not subscribed:
     dList.append(self.proto.subscribe(folderPath))
This logic was added in Preview specifically for Thunderbird support.
If the folders are no longer getting subscribed to during creation
then there was a bug introduced that should be investigated for 1.0.

Take care,
Brian Kirsch

On Jul 9, 2008, at 10:36 AM, Jared Rhine wrote:

>> It looks like in Thunderbird, you need to manually subscribe to  
>> IMAP folders created by other email applications.
>
> It'd be nice if Chandler Desktop also subscribed to the folders it  
> creates.
>
> I'll forever hate Mac's Mail.app for it's complete ignoring of IMAP  
> subscribed status, which forced me to rework my entire server-side  
> mail setup when I wanted to try out Mail.app.  (It kept trying to  
> download *all* my archived email since 1996).  Other mail clients  
> have all interoperated with subscribed folder status (avoiding  
> downloading mail from unsubscribed folders, like my archives).
>
> Subscribed is a normal, well-supported IMAP command (6.3.6 in RFC  
> 3501).  Near as I can figure, subscribing to the newly-created  
> Chandler folders will improve interop with clients which properly  
> support it without affecting Mail.app which ignores it entirely.
>
> -- Jared
>
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