Re: [Hampshire] Kmail

OK. I wasn't aware there were server subscriptions, but that certainly
makes sense. I wonder what sort of subscription Thunderbird uses for
IMAP then, as I haven't seen the option for server or local in it.

Yeah, I should test it really. Although I'm still amazed at how little
documentation I could find on this.

Leo

On 02/05/11 22:32, Samuel Penn wrote:
> Leo<linux@???> wrote:
>> Does anyone use Kmail? If so can you explain to me what "Servside
>> subscription" and "Local subscription" are on an IMAP account? Despite
>> much googling I still haven't found a decent explanation. I know that
>> it's possible to cache email from an IMAP account locally, for reading
>> when disconnected and I presume one of the subscriptions represents
>> that. I just don't know which, and what the other is for.
>
> I think the difference is that 'server subscriptions' are managed by
> the server, whilst 'local subscriptions' are managed by the client.
> i.e., if you add a server subscription, then that subscription will
> take effect for all clients that you use to connect to that server.
>
> However, information about local subscriptions is only held on the
> client.
>
> I think, but that's me guessing based on what I've found.
>
> It's not so much to do with caching, but with what folders you see
> and get notified about when new mail arrives.
>
> If you had thousands of folders, then you'd probably only want to
> see a few - you wouldn't want to get notified any time something new
> appeared in any folder on the server.
>
> I think.
>
> You could try this out if you had multiple mail clients, and seeing
> if changing server subscriptions affects all clients but local
> subscriptions only affects KMail.
>