[Dovecot] Outlook cant delete folders

Romer Ventura rventura at h-st.com
Wed Mar 4 16:50:35 EET 2009


It doesnt matter if it is an existent account or a new account. If i  
create folders at any depth i get the error when i try to delete it  
by right-clicking on the folder and selecting "Delete".

Outlook error:
Cannot delete the folder. Right-click the folder, and then click on  
Properties to check your permissions for the folder. See the Folder  
owner or the administrator to change your permissions. The server  
responded: "Mailbox doesnt exist: asdf".

Now when outlook shows the server responded message, it shows the  
folder to erase "asdf", however, the real name is ".asdf", would that  
have something to do with it..? Or does Dovecot takes care of the dot  
"."..?

The mailbox certainly exists:
# ll
total 68
drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 Mar  4 08:41 .INBOX.cvn
drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 Mar  4 08:41 .INBOX.zxcv
drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 Mar  4 08:41 .Junk E-mail
drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 Mar  4 08:41 .asdf
drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 Mar  4 08:41 .asdf.bnsdf
drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 Mar  4 08:41 .asdf.sxcv
drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 Mar  4 08:41 .dfhfgh
drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 Mar  4 08:41 .rturtuy
drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 Mar  4 08:41 .yomaam
drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 Mar  4 08:41 .zxcv
drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 Mar  4 08:40 cur
-rw------- 1 vmail vmail   17 Mar  4 08:40 dovecot-uidlist
-rw------- 1 vmail vmail    8 Mar  4 08:41 dovecot-uidvalidity
-rw------- 1 vmail vmail    0 Mar  4 08:40 dovecot-uidvalidity.49ae92ce
-rw------- 1 vmail vmail  232 Mar  4 08:40 dovecot.index.log
drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 Mar  4 08:40 new
-rw------- 1 vmail vmail   86 Mar  4 08:41 subscriptions
drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 Mar  4 08:40 tmp


Thanks

On Mar 3, 2009, at 4:40 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 14:42 -0600, Romer Ventura wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> It has been brought to my attention that outlook users cant delete
>> folders from their mailbox. They can move them around and erase
>> emails, but when it comes to folders, they cant.. Any ideas..?
>
> Only Outlook users, or everyone? And what exactly do you mean by
> "can't"? What exactly happens when they try it?
>
>> mail_plugins: lazy_expunge
>
> Could be related to this. Have you tried if it works after disabling
> this?
>



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