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

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2022-12-05 at 10:26 +0100, Milan Crha via evolution-users
wrote:
> 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.

That's interesting, but I'm not clear on what the OP should put in that
field to get the effect of an anonymous root folder.

poc