Perform signal-event sogo-modify at the command line to expand the template. That will write the changes to the SOGo config file and restart sogod.
I restarted the machine after modifying the template; surely that expands all the templates?
Probably better to put custom template changes into the templates-custom folders, in case anything Alessio updates will overwrite your customizations.
I'd have done that except that I don't understand the language the templates are written in. It looks to me from the way the 10default template fragment is laid out that the indented list of parameters defined is enclosed by opening, and presumably at some point later closing instructions, but I have no idea how to add a line from another template that will be treated as part of that parameter list. I'm fully aware how to build the the folder structure in templates-custom and how to number a template fragment so that it will get lumped into the resulting file with the fragments from templates, but what the new fragment should look like is not in the SME docs - at least in any part of the SME docs that a non-programmer like me would ever read.
For the benefit of others, and perhaps as a hint to Alessio for future versions of his contrib, this is what the beginning of my /etc/e-smith/templates/home/sogo/GNUstep/Defaults/.GNUstepDefaults/10default template fragment now looks like...
\{
NSGlobalDomain = \{
\};
sogod = \{
NGUseUTF8AsURLEncoding = YES;
OCSFolderInfoURL = "mysql://sogo:{$sogod{'DbPassword'}}@localhost/sogo/sogo_folder_info";
OCSSessionsFolderURL = "mysql://sogo:{$sogod{'DbPassword'}}@localhost/sogo/sogo_sessions_folder";
SOGoACLsSendEMailNotificat..........
I can confirm that it works perfectly and has made SOGo into a most useful add-on for the SME server. I have a set of shared diaries open on my desktop as I write and they have remained active for some hours now with no sign of the earlier tendency to go to sleep.
Sounds like you need to spend some time in the SME docs...
Believe me, over the last 10 years or so I've put quite a bit of time and effort into that.
I don't have any suggestion for the sub-folder. I haven't had the same issue, but that would be an issue to take up in the SME forums.
I'll raise this as a separate issue but you might care to create a subfolder and try to delete it to see if you have the same issue.
Ed Form