Weird behavior of KMail 1.8.1 when creating resource folders in an (online) IMAP account

[Torsten Kasch]

Hi,

On Saturday, 4. June 2005 00:39, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Friday 03 June 2005 16:47, Till Adam wrote:
> > On Friday 03 June 2005 14:39, Andreas Gungl wrote:
> > > I've found no bug report about it. And I haven't filed a new one,
> > > because I'm not sure if it really is a bug, or if I did something
> > > wrong. (It's unlikely though, as I have installed some Kolab 2
> > > accounts without any such problems - but they were all dIMAP
> > > accounts.) Some feedback would be welcome.
> >
> > The resource does not work with online imap at all.
>
> Then we should probably disable the online IMAP resource, no? I mean
> where's the sense in allowing the user to create a resource which
> doesn't work at all?

That leads me to another question: Would it be possible to implement the 
functionality for online IMAP at reasonable costs?

While I understand that dIMAP is quite useful on Laptops and probably on 
stand-alone clients it's not really advanteagous at our site: we provide 
(mostly) SunRay terminals as workstations for our 500+ users. The IMAP 
storage of each department resides on the same disk partition as the users' 
home directories of that department (some kind of "social quota" which has 
worked extremely well for quite a few years now ;-) So, allowing dIMAP in 
this setup would be clearly a waste of disk space and backup media -- 
especially since many users (including me) have quite large mailboxes 
(several hundred MB upto a few GB).

Maybe we aren't the only site with such a setup (I remember a similar email on 
these lists from earlier this year but cannot seem to find it right now). 
Would it make sense to file a wishlist item in bugzilla?

cheers,
	Torsteb