Postler

Nested IMAP folders aren't displayed correctly

Bug #671728 reported by Michael Holley on 2010-11-06

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Postler	In Progress	High	Unassigned

Bug Description

I have a standard IMAP account with my web host. The IMAP prefix is INBOX. When I setup the account I included INBOX as the prefix and when the folders are synced they line up under my Inbox, as they should. The problem is when I have an IMAP folder nested under another IMAP folder. For example: INBOX > Clients > Innovative. What I see is Clients, then another folder called Clients.Innovative.

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Michael Holley (michaelwholley) wrote on 2010-11-06:

nested-fail.png Edit (3.7 KiB, image/png)

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Allen Lowe (lallenlowe) wrote on 2010-11-06: Re: [Bug 671728] Re: Nested IMAP folders aren't displayed correctly

I can confirm this bug. This is a very important thing to get right early on
in postler's development. By the way, Christian and Daniel, this is my
friend Michael, he is an email guru.

On Nov 5, 2010 11:50 PM, "Michael Holley" <email address hidden> wrote:

** Attachment added: "nested-fail.png"

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/671728/+attachment/1724567/+files/nested-fail.png

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Changed in postler:
status:	New → Confirmed
importance:	Undecided → Critical

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Allen Lowe (lallenlowe) wrote on 2010-11-10:

PARTIAL FIX! see comment! Edit (4.1 KiB, text/plain)

After trying to get this to work for 3 hours, I have a patch here that **PARTIALLY** fixes this issue, it displays all the nested folders under the first nesting level, but their name are all correct. Christian is investigating how to make it completely recursive.

Changed in postler:
status:	Confirmed → In Progress

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Allen Lowe (lallenlowe) wrote on 2010-11-11:

I am confused now, so you can't reproduce the error in the latest revision from git?
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Cris Dywan (kalikiana) on 2010-11-11

Changed in postler:
assignee:	nobody → Christian Dywan (kalikiana)

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Cris Dywan (kalikiana) wrote on 2010-11-26:

I enhanced the handling of nested folders for ~- to recognise . as well and be more generic. This is not fully complete yet, deeply nested folders still don't show up as expected.