IMAP folders with long path names

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Subject: mutt-1.4i: IMAP folders with long path names
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We have several shared "read only" type IMAP folders on our server
for things like common mailing lists that we are all on, rather than
sending e-mails to all users, we can access one copy of the messages
from the shared IMAP folders.

Unfortunately, the folders are in a stupidly long deep location
in the IMAP tree, like:

imaps://mail/Other Users/lists~services.server.net/external-customers/long_folder_name

(And I've shortened it here by removing the FQDN of the mail server!)

There should be a way to hide all the cruft before the actual
folder name and/or just list it as:

imaps://[...]/external-customers/long_folder_name

Quite often these are >80 columns wide and so changing folders
when there is new mail in them truncates the end of the folder
name (I think you can press ">" to make it show you the end
of the folder's name.

An IMAP listing at 80 Columns looks like:

 6   0                                 imaps://mail/Other Users/lists~services.
 7   0                                 imaps://mail/Other Users/lists~services.
 8   0                                 imaps://mail/Other Users/lists~services.
 9   0                                 imaps://mail/Other Users/lists~services.
10   0                                 imaps://mail/Other Users/lists~services.
11   0                                 imaps://mail/Other Users/lists~services.
12   0                                 imaps://mail/Other Users/lists~services.


... which is not particularly helpful selecting the correct folder!

The workaround is I have to make my terminal a lot wider at the moment.

Is it possible to, like I have defined for set folder="imaps://mail/mail"
and then:

mailboxes =foo =bar =folders are listed in the list as "=foo"

To do a similar thing to that like:

imap_list_hide="imaps://mail/Other Users/lists~services.server.net/"

which would cause them to be listed as, say:


6   0                                  </external-customers/long_folder_name




>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:

[brendan]

Refile as change-request.

[rado]

Move to IMAP category