Push locally-created folders to IMAP server?

[seanh]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 08:00:28PM +0200, seanh wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:17:02AM +0400, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 01:18:33PM +0200, seanh wrote:
> > > Hey, is there any way to push locally-created maildir folders up to the
> > > imap server? They don't seem to get created on the server, and when I
> > > manually created the empty folder on the server then offlineimap tried
> > > to create the folder locally but stopped with an error saying the folder
> > > already exists.
> > > 
> > > I have offlineimap 6.5.4
> > 
> > 6.5.4 does that for me on a daily basis.  Perhaps output from
> > 'offlineimap -d ALL' and your offlineimaprc will help here.
> 
> Thanks, it's good to know that the feature is supported in principle. I
> definitely have folders in my maildirs that are not getting synced up to
> gmail though.
> 
> Here's my config:
> 
> https://gist.github.com/3795376
> 
> The folders in question are Archives/* folders, so they should be caught
> by my folderfilter setting. The folderfilter setting is probably the
> prime suspect here though.
> 
> The output of offlineimap -d ALL is an 11MB file, so I didn't post it.
> 
> I tried adding the folders to my folderincludes, but then I got this:
> 
> ERROR: Exceptions occurred during the run!
> ERROR: Invalid folderinclude:
>   Error SELECTing mailbox 'Archives/data.gv.at', server reply:
> ('NO', ['[NONEXISTENT] Unknown Mailbox: Archives/data.gv.at (now in authenticated state) (Failure)'])
> ERROR: Invalid folderinclude:
>   Error SELECTing mailbox 'Archives/register.data.overheid.nl', server reply:
> ('NO', ['[NONEXISTENT] Unknown Mailbox: Archives/register.data.overheid.nl (Failure)'])
> ERROR: Invalid folderinclude:
>   Error SELECTing mailbox 'Archives/tanzania', server reply:
> ('NO', ['[NONEXISTENT] Unknown Mailbox: Archives/tanzania (Failure)'])
> 
> When I run offlineimap without these folders in my folderincludes, then
> there are no errors and nothing about those folders in the output, it
> certainly looks like they get filtered out by the folderfilter.

I couldn't get it to work so in the end I moved the local folders out of
the way then recreated them remotely. I'll just try to remember to
create new folders remotely and then sync them, rather than creating
them locally.