Re: [openchange]issue: don't want Public Folders presented by default

On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 08:39 +0530, Johnny Jacob wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 14:19 +0200, Julien Kerihuel wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 13:56 +0200, Maxim Burgerhout wrote:
> > > I would rather have Evolution present these Public Folders only on
> > > demand or on some sort of subscription basis. Outlook seems to do
> > > this. When I start Outlook, I am not presented a whole lot of Public
> > > Folders by default, but I can opt-in to some of them if I want to.
> > > Maybe Evolution can do the same? Does the current Evolution / libmapi
> > > framework allow for a solution like this? 
> > 
> > Hi Maxim,
> > 
> > libmapi allows and implements this behavior. We provide a call to "open
> > public folders" only (OpenPublicFolder), then if you want to list the
> > folders and its hierarchy, you need to go through a set of calls. This
> > behavior is implemented when you run openchangeclient --pf --mailbox and
> > I think this may be the behavior evolution implements by default.
> > 
> > So this is something which needs to be modified on evolution side.
> > 
> > > I can see there are
> > > 'subscribe to other user's folder' and 'permissions' options, but
> > > neither seems to do anything.
> > 
> > libmapi implements permissions (add/remove/delete), but does not provide
> > yet a convenient way to subscribe/access other user's folders. This is
> > an improvement which should be available once I've merged and updated
> > the multisession patch in trunk.
> > 
> > I don't think the evo-mapi team yet had the time to implement the GUI