[Dovecot] Problem deleting folders with Thunderbird?
Knute Johnson
linux at www.knutejohnson.com
Thu May 29 07:37:44 EEST 2008
Knute Johnson wrote:
I think I solved both questions. With Thunderbird one needs to uncheck
the "Server supports folders that contain sub-folders and messages" from
the Advanced Account Settings dialog. And I guess that answers my
question about dovecot supporting sub-folders.
Thanks...
> I am running Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 on Windows XP. When I try to delete
> one of the folders I get a dialog with the following "The current
> command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Target mailbox
> doesn't allow inferior mailboxes." I am running dovecot version
> 1.0.13-6.fc8 under Fedora 8. The output of dovecot -n is below;
>
> [root at www knute]# dovecot -n
> # 1.0.13: /etc/dovecot.conf
> protocols: imaps pop3s
> disable_plaintext_auth: yes
> login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
> login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
> login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
> login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
> mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
> mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
> mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3
> mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
> mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
> mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
> auth default:
> passdb:
> driver: pam
> userdb:
> driver: passwd
>
> Is there something to be configured to allow mail box deletion? I know
> there was a similar discussion this week about users deleting their
> mailboxes accidentally. Are folders within folders allowed by dovecot?
>
> Thanks very much,
>
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Knute Johnson
linux at www.knutejohnson.com
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