[Dovecot] deleting folders containing subfolders with thunderbird (mbox format) bug

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 18:35 +0100, John Bramley wrote:
> When using Thunderbird (dovecot-0.99.13-3.FC3) on Fedora connecting to 
> dovecot-0.99.13-3.FC3 I am having problems deleting folders which have 
> been created with the 'Allow your new folder to contain: Folders only' 
> option picked.
> 
> The folder appears to get deleted but upon restarting Thunderbird the 
> folder still appears to be there but clicking on it I get the error: 
> 'The current command did not succeed. The mailserver responded: Mailbox 
> doesn't exist: <mailbox name>'.

1.0-stable and 1.0-test releases work actually even worse. I added a bug
to Mozilla's bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301714

> I'm surprised at this bug (or am I doing something completely wrong), 
> surely lots of people use Thunderbird with dovecot, do they not create 
> sub-folders in folders, or are they all using Maildir format, or do they 
> never find the 'Server supports folders that contain sub-folders and 
> messages' advanced option so they are never able to create folders 
> within folders in the first place?

Probably some/all of those :)

Anyway, I think I'll add a workaround setting for this problem.

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