[SM-USERS] INBOX subfolders showing up incorrectly in folder pane

[Anders la C. B. <an...@be...>]

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Hello all,

Environment: SquirrelMail 1.4.3a with Apache 2.0.48 PHP 4.3.4 with
Binc Imap 1.2.8final (all built from source) on a Debian Woody.

I have a setup where my INBOX, Drafts, Trash, and Sent folders are on
the same level. Furthermore, my INBOX has several subfolders:

Drafts
+ INBOX
- ----Family
- ----Work
Sent
Trash

(The plus denotes that the folder contains subfolders, the four dashes
that the folder is on a lower level.)

However, the SquirrelMail folder pane shows the INBOX first, then
Drafts, then the subfolders of INBOX, and then Sent and Trash:

INBOX
Drafts
- ----Family
- ----Work
Sent
Trash

There's no plus sign next to INBOX, but the subfolders do appear
indented. I disabled "Show Special Folders First" in conf.pl. Before I
did that, the layout was INBOX, Drafts, Sent, Trash, and then the
subfolders.

It appears to me that the problem is caused by SquirrelMail's desire
to display INBOX first and then the rest ordered alphabetically.
However, I believe the subfolders should appear directly underneath
their parent (note that if we rearrange the list so INBOX is in the
alphabetically right place, the subfolders would also be placed
correctly: Drafts, INBOX, subfolders, Sent, Trash.)

SquirrelMail is aware of the right folder structure; in the "Move
Selected To" list I can choose "INBOX, Drafts, INBOX/Family,
INBOX/Work, Sent, and Trash (in that order). Here it would also in my
opinion be intuitively better to have the INBOX followed by its
subfolders and not split up like this.

That leaves two possibilities: a layout that's strictly alphabetical:
Drafts, INBOX, subfolders of INBOX, Sent, Trash.
And a layout with INBOX first: INBOX, subfolders of INBOX, Drafts,
Sent, Trash.
Putting other top-level folders in between INBOX and its subfolders
doesn't make sense.

Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this? I tried looking at the
source, but I'm not really into PHP so I didn't get any wiser.

Anders
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