Kolab w. ActiveSync on Android using Gmail client: Only Inbox and Sent folders are visible

[Adi Pircalabu]

On 25-09-2018 17:06, Aleksander Machniak wrote:
> On 25.09.2018 08:41, Adi Pircalabu wrote:
>> After setting up the account as Exchange in Gmail on the phone (LG G5
>> running Android 7.0), the email clients seems to sync the emails from
>> all the IMAP folders, but only Inbox and Sent folders are visible in 
>> the
>> Android mail client. The emails from other folders appear all under
>> Inbox. The emails from Sent folder appear under Sent.
> 
> This has nothing to do with dovecot. Historically Android did not
> support folder hierarchies via ActiveSync. I'm still not sure it does.
> Anyway, that's the default. We have however configuration options to
> change that. You can try:
> 
> $config['activesync_multifolder_blacklist'] = array();
> or
> $config['activesync_multifolder_blacklist_mail'] = array();
> 
> See
> https://git.kolab.org/diffusion/S/browse/master/config/config.inc.php.dist
> for more explanation.

Hi Aleksander,

The suggested changes did the trick, thanks. Now I can see the other 
folders and you're right, on Android using activesync only the 1st level 
folders are visible, goes like this:
Inbox.Folder1 - visible
Inbox.Folder1.Subfolder1 - not visible

Thanks,

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Adi Pircalabu