Re: IMAP account retrieval problem (reprise) ad nauseum

Hi Dave,

On Nov 23, 2004, at 21:33, dave johnson wrote:

> So you changed the behavior of Zoe then ?

Yes. The previous behavior was bogus as it added the INBOX even though 
you restricted the mailbox path.

> Then at version 0.5.9 things changed again. You are now telling me 
> that I must explicitly tell Zoe *every* mailbox to index ?

Nope. Just the root of each of your mailbox hierarchies. For example:

Inbox=true
mail=true

The boolean value tell the application to either recurse through that 
mailbox hierarchy or not.

> zoe is now getting everything again and seems to be completely 
> disregarding the [email protected] files completely:

The first time around, you should see a log from the configuration 
manager along these lines:

(Debug) SZConfiguration.properties: Looking for 
'<ZOE>/Library/SZ/Configurations/Default/[email protected]'.

If the app can find your configuration files, you should also see the 
following log:

(Info) SZServiceAgent.foldersWithUrlNameInStore: Using '[email protected]' 
properties...

>   Why is "INBOX" not included in the default ?  I would imagine that 
> including the default IMAP-reported "INBOX" would be the norm for 99% 
> of most Zoe users.

By default, the INBOX is always included. However, if you explicitly 
restrict the mailbox path, you will only get whatever is bellow it.

> Why did you have to change the behavior from 0.5.8 ?  it seemed so 
> perfectly logical.

It was creating problems for people who wanted to exclusively restrict 
their access to a specific mailbox.

To summarize:

Usually, you simply specify your IMAP server name. The application will 
then find all your mailboxes automatically. This is the default 
scenario.

Adding a path is meant to restrict the scope of the above search. So 
instead of starting at the root of your mailbox hierarchy, the 
application will only search a subset of it.

Finally, if none of the above behaviors is what you want, you may 
explicitly specify which mailboxes to access using a property file.

Cheers,

R.




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