Folders beside / within INBOX

[poldy79]

On a mailcow mail setup, folders are located parallel to INBOX:

Just list mail boxes!
"Test"                                  #UnMarked
"Archive"                               #UnMarked	#Archive
"Trash"                                 #Marked	#Trash
"Junk"                                  #UnMarked	#Junk
"Sent"                                  #UnMarked	#Sent
"Drafts"                                #UnMarked	#Drafts
"INBOX"                                 

on a Hetzner Mailserver (Level 9 Webhosting) all folders are below INBOX

"INBOX"                                 
  +- "test"                             #Marked
  +- "Trash"                            #UnMarked	#Trash
  +- "spambucket"                       #UnMarked	#Junk
  +- "Sent"                             #Marked	#Sent
  +- "Drafts"                           #UnMarked	#Drafts
  +- "Templates"                        #UnMarked

On the latter, creation of folders and append fails (using --google-takeout) with

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/leonard/src/imap-upload-poldy79/imap_upload.py", line 426, in upload
    raise Exception(r2[0]) # FIXME: Should use custom class
Exception: b'Client tried to access nonexistent namespace. (Mailbox name should probably be prefixed with: INBOX.) (0.001 + 0.000 secs).'
)

I am not sure if this is already covered by imap-upload.py and I have overseen something or if this is not yet supported.
If I prefix the path for imap.create_folder and imap.append with "INBOX" everything works fine.

I could provide a solution, might be a switch --everything-below-inbox ? What do you think?

[poldy79]

It seems that --google-takeout-box-as-base-folder fixes my problem.

But I think that imap.namespace() could give the hint automatically.

Hetzner returns ('OK', [b'(("INBOX." ".")) NIL NIL']) , where (("INBOX." ".")) describes the private Namespace.
Mailcow returns ('OK', [b'(("" "/")) (("Shared/" "/")) NIL']) where (("" "/")) describes the private Namespace

With this information the "Base-Folder ("INBOX" or "") could be deducted, as well as the folder_separator.

[rgladwell]

Sorry for the delay in responding to this. I'm on holiday this week, will try and get back to this next week.

[rgladwell]

With this information the "Base-Folder ("INBOX" or "") could be deducted, as well as the folder_separator.

This would be a great feature. Maybe it could even be a more generic to automatically default the --folder-separator argument.