Does evolution 2.8 no longer support imap4?

User1001 supraexpress at globaleyes.net
Thu Sep 7 13:48:49 UTC 2006


I second the vote for enabling IMAPv4.


michael johnson wrote:
> On 9/6/06, Thomas <freebsdlists at bsdunix.ch> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Gnomefellas
>>
>> Yesterday I upgraded to evolution-2.8.0. It looks like imap4 support is
>> no longer available. All my accounts with Imap4 as receiving options
>> where disabled after the upgrade from 2.7.x to 2.8. So I changed it to
>> Imap.
>> Another downside is that imap does not support shared imap folder like
>> imap4 does. I use several shared folder on my cyrus server and I can't
>> subscribe it anymore.
>>
>> Is there a way to re-enable imap4 support. At least it should be
>> documented that imap4 accounts are "disabled". The profiles are still
>> there but you have to change the receiving protocol to imap.
> 
> 
> It was disabled by default in evolution-data-server-1.8.0
> 
> 2006-09-01  Harish Krishnaswamy  <kharish at novell.com>
>        * configure.in, camel/providers/Makefile.am:
>        Make IMAP4rev1 provider a conditional feature,
>        turned off by default. Fixes #324118.
> 
> we can probably make a knob for it in e-d-s to optionally
> enabled it.
> 
> Michael


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