forwarded 369830 http://bugs.kde.org/115426 tags +upstream thanks
On Thursday 01 June 2006 11:08, Juergen Pfennig wrote: > Hi, this could be a documentation problem ... but kmail seems to have > neither an up-to-date home page nor is the help of much use. > > Here some details: > > On my Cyrus IMAP server I see (as user cyrus) folders like > > user.centauri > user.centauri.Archive > user.centauri.Current > > and as user centauri: > > INBOX > INBOX.Archive > INBOX.Current > > e.g. INBOX is a prefix for the folders that actually contain my data. > In previous versions kmail allowed me to specify "INBOX." as a prefix > and the folder tree in kmail looked as I wanted: > > Centauri > -+-Archive > +-Current > > Since 3.5 this no longer works (the prefix option is gone) and setting > "personal" in the namespace fields does not help. The confusing tree > looks now like: > > Centauri > ---INBOX > -+-Archive > +-Current > > This unwanted "INBOX" is quite confusing for most people and wastes > space on the screen. > > Jürgen I agree this is quite annoying (my Courier IMAP accounts are affected in the same way). According to upstream, the old "Prefix" handling was a hack, and with KDE 3.5, kmail now properly supports namespaces. Also according to the upstream bug, this will not be fixed in KDE 3.5, but may be fixed in KDE 4. I suggest voting for the bug in the KDE bug tracker. Thanks, Josh
