filter folders

[Auston Jary]

On 04/30 17:45, Andrea Crotti wrote:
> I'm using offlineimap 6.5.3.1 and I don't find a way to filter out
> the "All Mail" folder,
> I have this setting:
> 
> folderfilter = lambda foldername: foldername not in ['Trash',
> 'Deleted messages', "[Gmail].*"]
> 
> From the wiki page I found this:
> folderfilter = lambda foldername: foldername not in '[Gmail]/All Mail'

>From the man page I found
     folderfilter = lambda foldername: foldername not in ['Trash']
so with Gmail it should like this
     folderfilter = lambda foldername: foldername not in ['[Gmail]/All Mail']

> 
> but that in standard python would be wrong, because it since also a
> string is iterable it would
> check that foldername is not a character contained in that string.
> 
> So how is exactly the semantic of filtering in the configuration file?
> 
> Thanks,
> Andrea