KMail under CentOS

[Timothy Murphy]

Reindl Harald wrote:

>>> why would one need a graphical UI on a server to add folders via IMAP?
>>> just add the folder on the IMAP server, subsribe to it and you are done
>>
>> Simply because I'm not sure exactly what one has to do.
>> When you say "subscribe to it", do you mean
>> 'add to the file "subscriptions" in ~/Maildir/'?
>> I'm never quite sure if dovecot.index, etc, will automatically update
> 
> don't mangle around on the server at all
> 
> that's what IMAP is for - no idea what your problem is but your
> questions are for sure not the solution to any problem at all

Surely questions are not usually the solution to a problem.
Perhaps answering my question might help.

> https://www.google.at/search?q=imap+subscriptions
> https://www.google.at/search?q=kmail+subscriptions

I found both of these completely useless.
You would have to specify which response you are referring to
if you are really trying to help.
I looked at the first 10 responses to the first google query,
and none of them referred to KMail at all.

Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "mangle around on the server",
especially as your suggestion was to "add the folder on the IMAP server".

Just to repeat my query: one cannot add a top-level folder
in the current version of KMail, as one could in some older versions.
If I simply add a folder to ~/Maildir/ on my server 
it does not appear in KMail on my laptop.


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Timothy Murphy  
gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin