[Dovecot] dovecot refuses to remove folders

[Pascal Volk]

On 01/07/2010 06:54 PM Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I've got a problem between Thunderbird 3.0 and Dovecot imapd
> version 1.2.9. Configuration:
> …
> Please note the "LAYOUT=fs" and "seperator: /". AFAICS Dovecot
> refuses to remove a folder with '/' inside or at the end.
> 
> Sample session (extracted from Thunderbird log file):
> 
> 5 list "" "Trash/*"
> * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "Trash/"
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Trash/subfolder2delete"
> 5 OK List completed.
> 6 list "" "Trash/subfolder2delete/*"
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Trash/subfolder2delete/"
> 6 OK List completed.
> 7 delete "Trash/subfolder2delete/"
> 7 NO [CANNOT] Invalid mailbox name
> 
> 
> I was pretty sure that this is a bug in Thunderbird, so I had
> created https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537626 .
> Unfortunately the Thunderbird developers are not convinced.
> 
> Maybe somebody on this list can comment on this?

This problem is well known. See
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Clients#Thunderbird, there is also a link to a
bug report.


Regards,
Pascal
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