I don't see a symlink as a symlink - I see a set of folders as if they were all in the same place. And this has always worked with DtMail from CDE, which is what I'm now having to call up to solve this filing problem, and worked fine with Evolution before 1.0.8, as I said before. The server in all cases has been Sun's SIMS 2.0, although now at P12, so this could have changed something. I don't know when they last patched it.
It's just occured to me though that DtMail is doing the filing as a local filesystem thing, and so not using IMAP - I've just played with it as got it to search the same directory structure using IMAP instead of local files and sure enough it too doesn't see these links to directories elsewhere. So that is it. I need to come up with a way of doing this with local files in Evo, and it sounds like 1.1/1.2 will have this ability. I'll look into it. Thanks for the pointers. Mark. On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 18:23, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 12:04, Mark R. Bowyer wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 02:06, Not Zed wrote: > > > > > > just committed a big imap patch to cvs evo. <SNIP> > > > > I was going to post to this list about this, and your email gives me a > > good excuse to do it now. ;O) > > > > Around 1.0.8, a change was made to the way folders are seen by the IMAP > > system, in that (a) soft links are no longer followed; > > Sounds like nothing to do with Evolution. > > [snip] > > > While I keep all my mail folders in a directory in my > > (network mounted) home, for backup and access reasons, I move "old" > > folders into another directory fairly regularly, to keep my disk usage > > reasonable - and to do this I made a soft link to a directory on a local > > disk. This used to work fine on Evo < 1.0.8, and I was able to see the > > directory of "old" folders in the folder view, and open it to look at > > old emails and drop the occasional new email that needed to go in one of > > them easily. > > Sounds like a IMAP server bug. Remember that IMAP is not a file-system, > and therefor Evolution knows nothing about whether a folder is really a > symlink or not. If the IMAP server says "nope, so subfolders" then > Evolution says "okay, there are no subfolders" - end of story. > > > > > Now I don't even see links, and if I create a directory and link all the > > folders within it, then I see an empty folder, not one with more folders > > in. > > why would you see links to begin with? IMAP does not have a concept of > links. > > > So to view or file emails in these "old" folders I now have to fire > > up another email tool =O( I'm running on Solaris BTW, but I don't think > > that's relevant. I've tried linking to folders on the same mount point > > to ensure this isn't a problem with the IMAP server or the client and > > NFS mounting. > > NFS mounting on the server-side would not affect the client. what other > email tool are you running that can see symlinks on IMAP? or are you > running something like pine or mutt on the server? If that is what you > are doing, then obviously that is why they can see it and Evolution > can't. > > > > > Was this a design decision, or just a result of a recoding that isn't > > intended? > > Sounds like a result of your IMAP server being broken. > > Jeff > > -- > Jeffrey Stedfast > Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com > -- --------My opinion - Not sane, intelligent or necessarily useful-------- o o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] /v\ark R. Bowyer http://www.bowyer.screaming.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] `-' ------------------------------------------------------ /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign fingerprint = 7924 9E9E 7B91 225E B065 X Against HTML Mail 1024D/19BC72F6 39D0 551D ABE6 1514 0DC1 / \
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