Re: KMail/Dovecot creating mail folder

[Reindl Harald]

Am 07.07.2013 00:07, schrieb Timothy Murphy:
>  Reindl Harald wrote:
> >> Incidentally, I have no idea what "server-side subscriptions" are.
> >> Is this a speciality of KMail, or do other mail programs share the
> >> concept?
>  
> > it is a basic IMAP concept
> > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501#section-6.3.6
>  
>  Thanks for your response.
>  Actually, your link doesn't appear on the face of it
>  to refer to what KMail calls Folders. 
folders in context of IMAP are on the server
there is no "KMail calls Folders"

>  So how would you subscribe to, or unsubscribe from, a given folder?
sorry i am not a kmail user, in thunderbird you simply
right-click on the account name and select "subscriptions"
i think called in english, in german it's label is "Abbonieren"

>  Actually, I see there is a file ~/Maildir/subscriptions on my
> server.
>  This does in fact list the folder Spam that I am interested in,
>  but which I cannot see from KMail on my laptop.
>  
>  I see that if I run KMail on my server, I can see this folder 
sounds like a damaged profile

>  I can also see it if I run Evolution on my laptop.
>  So it seems it is a specific KMail problem,
>  rather than a dovecot issue 
folder subscriptions are such a baisc IMAP capabilitie
that it is hardly broken on a widely used mailserver