[Dovecot] Thunderbird and Trash folder

Robert Schetterer robert at schetterer.org
Thu Oct 29 01:24:29 EET 2009


Stefan Onken schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> I have my problems with the Trash folder in thunderbird. Most of the
> times (it did work, but only for a short period) Thunderbird is not
> considering the "Trash" folder (or in my case the "Papierkorb") as the
> trash folder. The symbol disappears and I am not able to delete folders.
> Deleted emails are disappearing at all.
> 
> The usual Google solutions like maildir vs. mbox doesn't help a lot, I
> am using maildir and the directory structure looks fine. I noticed that
> I have two trash folders, one with "INBOX.", one without. That may be a
> problem with Squirrelmail, because I am using both Thunderbird and
> Squirrelmail.
> 
> Any idea to solve this issue with Thunderbird ?
> 
> Thank you,
> Stonki
> 
> 
> Dovecot -a: http://www.pastebin.org/49066
> Directory structure: http://www.pastebin.org/49067

yes, you have to sync your squirrelmail setup to the thunderbird imap
standart folder layout ( can be easy done), having two trashes will
confuse Tb i think
but for detailed debug show your dovecot config specially your namespace
layout

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Best Regards

MfG Robert Schetterer

Germany/Munich/Bavaria


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