KMail/Dovecot creating mail folder

[Eli Wapniarski]

Right click on any folder and then click on manage local subscriptions

Eli

On Sunday 07 July 2013 00:46:32 Colin J Thomson wrote:
> 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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