KMail/Dovecot creating mail folder

[Colin J Thomson]

On Sunday 07 Jul 2013 01:29:31 Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 07.07.2013 01:24, schrieb Colin J Thomson:
> > On Sunday 07 Jul 2013 00:07:27 Timothy Murphy wrote:
> >> 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.
> >> 
> >>> someone may have a ton of folders with archived mails
> >>> and is away some weeks only have access per mobile device
> >>> 
> >>> nothing more helpful than unsubscribe from unneeded folders
> >>> without delete or change anything of the data
> >> 
> >> So how would you subscribe to, or unsubscribe from, a given folder?
> > 
> > If you right click on the given folder you will see the options
> > Serverside subscriptions and Manage local subscriptions
> 
> the question is "how to subscribe" via kmail

Yes I understand this,

> you can hardly do this by right click on a non-subscribed folder
> in your folder-list because it is not visible, as said in thunderbird
> this is done via right-click on the parent account

Well... I am using Gmail IMAP for one of my accounts and I can subscribe or 
unsubscribe from the Gmail folders in Kmail2 by right clicking on any folder 
shown in the IMAP account.

Unsubscribing with the right click Serverside option hides the folder in 
Kmail2, doing the same right click and  Serverside subscriptions the Gmail 
folders are listed and I can select which folders and subscribe again.

I am quite new to IMAP so sorry if I am misunderstanding the question, maybe 
it is different with Gmail IMAP.

Colin
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