[Evolution] IMAP questions

[Not Zed]

On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 10:18 +0200, Thomas Emmel wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 10:00 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 15:42 +0200, Thomas Emmel wrote:
> > > Hi Jeffrey,
> > > 
> > > I switched to IMAP as you suggested but I had initially switched to
> > > IMAP4rev1
> > > since there is a folder that I like to see but therefore I have to
> > > change the namespace.
> > > If I do that I can see that folder but evolution says that it cannot see
> > > the folders under INBOX anymore....
> > > If I use the default namespace I can see again my folders in INBOX but
> > > the others not.
> > > That was working with IMAP4rev1.
> > > 
> > > BTW, why do I allways have to stop evolution, kill all evolution- and
> > > gconf-processes
> > > delete the /tmp/orbit-* /tmp/gconfd-* ~/.evolution/mail/imap*-folders to
> > > get these changes
> > > activated???
> > > And , in addition, this works only in 1 of 4 attempts? Where is the
> > > cache that I have forgotten
> > > to delete? Where are the passwords of evolution stored?
> > 
> > you shouldn't have to do all this... I've never had to. Also I fail to
> > see why doing all this could possibly help. Restarting evolution should
> > be plenty.
> > 
> > Jeff
> 
> Jeff,
> 
> yes, I hadn't to do that since evo 0.9 ...
> 
> But now I get strange errors after a crash and a restart like
> 
> Error while Opening folder imap://emmel@iris.abaqus.de/INBOX/2005.
> No such folder INBOX/2005
> 
> and evolution doesn't show me that folder but it is truly there. On the
> terminal I see
> 
> (evolution:968): evolution-mail-WARNING **: Folder
> 'imap://emmel@iris.abaqus.de/INBOX/2005' disappeared while I was
> adding/remove it to/from my vfolder
> ...
> 
> Maybe I have to remove those folders from the vfolders but that was one
> of the
> big points of evolution I used every day.
> That happens now with IMAP (not 4rev1), but I have seen that with
> IMAP4rev1
> too.

I suggest creating a new account rather than just changing the account
type, and then fixing up the vfolder source folders.  The uri's probably
dont match between the different backends or something.  I dunno, the
camel log should show it (see below).

> Other errors are, e.g.:
> Error while performing operation.
> 
> Failed to append to INBOX/Sent: IMAP4 server iris.abaqus.de unexpectedly
> disconnected: Invalid argument
> Appending to local `Sent' folder instead..
> 
> Does anyone can tell me how I can debug that in more detail?

CAMEL_DEBUG=all in environment.

> Is it worthy to move all my mails to IMAP, all my contacts to ldap and
> restart with a
> new, clean configuration of evolution?
> 
> Not Zed said that
> > Passwords are in ~/.gconf2_private/
> 
> I don't have such a folder!
> Is there a way to "forget only some passwords"?

only all of them.  but you cant even possibly be talking to the server
if your password is wrong so it's totally irrelevent.