[Evolution-users] How to put folders at the same level as Inbox (and no inside)

[Milan Crha]

On Sat, 2022-12-03 at 23:32 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> A quick search in the archives shows multiple threads about this
> going back nearly 20 years (including from me) and the basic idea is
> that this is a server-side option called "anonymous root folder"
> which is not per-user configurable according to the IMAP standard. It
> may be that Thunderbird has an option to disguise the real server
> folder structure, but AFAIK Evolution doesn't. Feel free to file a
> Request For Enhancement if you think it's important.

	Hi,
I do not speak French (the link to the how-to on the Thunderbird side
was in French), but could this be about changing the top Namespace to
be used by the IMAP provider? It's already possible and it's exposed in
IMAP account's Properties->Receiving Options->Advanced Options section
with "Override server-supplied folder namespace" option in Evolution
3.46.x. The previous versions can have it changed only by editing
corresponding .source file under ~/.config/evolution/sources/, it's the
one with

    [Imapx Backend]
    UseNamespace=false
    Namespace=

where the `UseNamespace` should be set to `true` and the `Namespace` be
changed to the desired place/folder. If you've more IMAP accounts
configured, then there will be more files with `[Imapx Backend]`
section, thus be careful which one you edit.

The file should be edited when the evolution itself is closed.
	Bye,
	Milan