[Dovecot] Cannot remove Maildir folder

[Marcin Deranek]

Timo Sirainen wrote:

> Dovecot should delete that directory automatically the next time LIST
> command is given.

Hmm.. It seems it does not work: I restarted Thunderbird 3 times and
directory is still there, issued LIST "" * and directory did not
disappear :-(

> Dovecot could just ignore that error also, but I don't know if that's a
> good idea..

Probably not.. People want to know when somehething goes wrong :-)

> Most likely that Thunderbird has opened multiple connections, and in one
> it still has the mailbox opened while another one tries to delete it.

Yes, default is 5. I'll try to set it to 1 and see if it helps.

> Not really. Is it a real problem? :)

For users: yes and that's the biggest group :-))

> Pretty much the only way to fix this would be to make one imap process
> tell other imap processes to close the mailbox before it tries deleting
> it. Too much trouble to be worth it.

I can imagine..

Marcin