<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">Hello,<br><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br>I have been looking around the internet and this list for quite some<br>time, and I can't seem to figure out why this feature (a folder is<br>created locally, offlineimap detects this and then creates the folder<br>with those contents on the IMAP server). People have been asking after<br>this feature for quite a while, see eg. a few posts on this list (I<br>could provide links) or this<br>(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=202353) wishlist-type<br>bug on the debian package page (from 2003).<br><br>I am willing to implement this feature, because sorting emails into<br>folders is an essential component of my email workflow with mutt.
The<br>lack of this feature is blocking my adoption of offlineimap, which<br>otherwise looks like a fantastic package. Would the feature be very hard<br>to implement? Are there serious technical issues blocking it? Basically,<br>I don't want to start digging through the source only to figure out two<br>weeks later why it is impractical to implement, or far too much work for<br>some spare-time hacking.<br><br>Any pointers on where to get started?<br><br>Thanks!<br><br>--creole.sleepr<br><br>================================<br><br>Creole.sleepr,<br><br>Basically it depends on if your username on the remote imap server is allowed to create a folder, within your folder tree... <br><br>Only if the admin of the server has granted you this privilege, would offlineimap possibly be able to create a new folder on your behalf...<br><br>The reason is , offlineimap's impersonating you while it's logged into the remote imap server... so it can only do things
you can do.<br><br>Chris<br><br></div></div></div></body></html>