I am running Fedora 14 using Evolution connecting to an IMAP server on the same machine that is using Mailbox type Maildir.
In evolution there is a Junk mailbox and I have filtering set in evolution to filter for junk. When something meets the junk criteria the mail shows up in the junk folder via evolution and not my inbox.
I just cretaed an account on my cell phone to the same IMAP server account and on my cell phone the junk mail shows up in the INBOX.
I went perusing the Maildir for my account and I can't find any kind of Junk folder. I see all the ones I have created, but not the Junk folder, and in fact nothing that is obviously an INBOX either, though I am sure there is one.
So, where does IMAP store the INBOX and how does evolution handle it's Junk mailbox ?
Seems like there is an INBOX somewhere, that I just can't seem to find, and that evolution just tags email in there as Junk in such a way that it shows up in evolution's Junk mailbox, but not evolution's INBOX. But, since my phone knows nothing about the evolution Junk "tag" it sees the email in the INBOX.
Thanks Chris Kottaridis
On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 14:45 -0600, Chris Kottaridis wrote:
I am running Fedora 14 using Evolution connecting to an IMAP server on the same machine that is using Mailbox type Maildir.
In evolution there is a Junk mailbox and I have filtering set in evolution to filter for junk. When something meets the junk criteria the mail shows up in the junk folder via evolution and not my inbox.
What are you using to set up the Junk criteria?
I just cretaed an account on my cell phone to the same IMAP server account and on my cell phone the junk mail shows up in the INBOX.
I went perusing the Maildir for my account and I can't find any kind of Junk folder. I see all the ones I have created, but not the Junk folder, and in fact nothing that is obviously an INBOX either, though I am sure there is one.
So, where does IMAP store the INBOX and how does evolution handle it's Junk mailbox ?
Seems like there is an INBOX somewhere, that I just can't seem to find, and that evolution just tags email in there as Junk in such a way that it shows up in evolution's Junk mailbox, but not evolution's INBOX. But, since my phone knows nothing about the evolution Junk "tag" it sees the email in the INBOX.
Thanks Chris Kottaridis
On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 14:45 -0600, Chris Kottaridis wrote:
So, where does IMAP store the INBOX and how does evolution handle it's Junk mailbox ?
There is no Junk mailbox. Junk is a virtual folder (similar to Trash but not identical). Junk mail is labelled as such on the IMAP server. Email clients that don't handle IMAP labels correctly will just see it as normal mail, since it's still in the Inbox.
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On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 17:00 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
There is no Junk mailbox. Junk is a virtual folder (similar to Trash but not identical). Junk mail is labelled as such on the IMAP server. Email clients that don't handle IMAP labels correctly will just see it as normal mail, since it's still in the Inbox.
OK, I figured it was something like that, a stupid cell phone client.
Still be interested in knowing where the INBOX is in a Maildir environment. In dovecot.conf I have:
[Maildir]# ls AA-inbox dovecot.index.cache dovecot-uidvalidity.4d1ac993 Sent Accounts dovecot.index.log Fitness subscriptions Boating dovecot.index.log.2 Group Admin Sysadmin Computing dovecot-keywords Investing tmp Contacts dovecot.mailbox.log Linux Trash cur dovecot-uidlist Misc Trucks dovecot.index dovecot-uidvalidity new XSpam
The AA-inbox is not it, that's a folder I created. So, it's not really obvious out of this where the INBOX is.
Thanks Chris Kottaridis
On 25 July 2011 23:27, Chris Kottaridis chriskot@quietwind.net wrote:
On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 17:00 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
There is no Junk mailbox. Junk is a virtual folder (similar to Trash but not identical). Junk mail is labelled as such on the IMAP server. Email clients that don't handle IMAP labels correctly will just see it as normal mail, since it's still in the Inbox.
OK, I figured it was something like that, a stupid cell phone client.
Still be interested in knowing where the INBOX is in a Maildir environment. In dovecot.conf I have:
[Maildir]# ls AA-inbox dovecot.index.cache dovecot-uidvalidity.4d1ac993 Sent Accounts dovecot.index.log Fitness subscriptions Boating dovecot.index.log.2 Group Admin Sysadmin Computing dovecot-keywords Investing tmp Contacts dovecot.mailbox.log Linux Trash cur dovecot-uidlist Misc Trucks dovecot.index dovecot-uidvalidity new XSpam
The AA-inbox is not it, that's a folder I created. So, it's not really obvious out of this where the INBOX is.
The Inbox is:
Maildir/cur/ <- read messages Maildir/new/ <- unread messages
You'll notice that the other folders themselves have cur and new folders, representing the same subset of messages in each IMAP folder.
Maildir/cur/ <- read messages Maildir/new/ <- unread messages
Got it!
That's a help.
Thanks Chris Kottaridis
On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 23:30 +0100, Sam Sharpe wrote:
On 25 July 2011 23:27, Chris Kottaridis chriskot@quietwind.net wrote:
On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 17:00 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
There is no Junk mailbox. Junk is a virtual folder (similar to Trash but not identical). Junk mail is labelled as such on the IMAP server. Email clients that don't handle IMAP labels correctly will just see it as normal mail, since it's still in the Inbox.
OK, I figured it was something like that, a stupid cell phone client.
Still be interested in knowing where the INBOX is in a Maildir environment. In dovecot.conf I have:
[Maildir]# ls AA-inbox dovecot.index.cache dovecot-uidvalidity.4d1ac993 Sent Accounts dovecot.index.log Fitness subscriptions Boating dovecot.index.log.2 Group Admin Sysadmin Computing dovecot-keywords Investing tmp Contacts dovecot.mailbox.log Linux Trash cur dovecot-uidlist Misc Trucks dovecot.index dovecot-uidvalidity new XSpam
The AA-inbox is not it, that's a folder I created. So, it's not really obvious out of this where the INBOX is.
The Inbox is:
Maildir/cur/ <- read messages Maildir/new/ <- unread messages
You'll notice that the other folders themselves have cur and new folders, representing the same subset of messages in each IMAP folder.
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