Edgy: Broken IMAP support in Evolution 2.8

[Constantine Evans]

Tony Arnold wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 11:12 +0100, Andrei Mikhailovsky wrote:
>> Hello everyone
>>
>> Is it just me, or the Evolution 2.8 lacks the support for IMAPrev4
>> support? In Evolution 2.6, there was support for IMAP and IMAPrev4. Now,
>> after the upgrade to Edgy, I can't subscribe or use any of the folders
>> apart from Inbox, Sent, Draft and a few other essential folders. It
>> looks like a bug to me.
> 
> I vaguely remember seeing a bug suggesting that IMAPrev4 support was to
> be dropped, at least for new users. Existing accounts would continue to
> work, but new accounts could not be created as IMAPrev4. Just use IMAP!
> You could search launchpad for more details.
> 
> Regards,
> Tony.

The IMAPrev4 had nothing to do with IMAP revision 4. It was an alternate 
implementation of the IMAP client, and it was always experimental and 
broken. "IMAP" supports everything that IMAPrev4 supports. Bugs in 
IMAPrev4 have been being closed with the developers telling everyone who 
complained to use IMAP instead. It was shocking to me that this was 
never mentioned in the documentation and that it took years for it to be 
removed from the default installation.

Constantine