[Dovecot] dovecot 2.0rc2 Cannot delete a folder with Thunderbird (delete, not move to Trash)

Sven Kirmess sven.kirmess at kzone.ch
Sat Jul 17 23:22:47 EEST 2010


With Thunderbird 3.1 I can now "delete" a folder which moves it to
Trash. But I cannot remove the folder in Trash.

The following is from the Thunderbird log file:

248[6814c00]: 8103800:imap.kzone.ch:A:SendData: 64 rename "test10"
"Trash/test10"

248[6814c00]: 8103800:imap.kzone.ch:A:CreateNewLineFromSocket: 64 OK
Rename completed.


248[6814c00]: 8103800:imap.kzone.ch:S-Trash/test10:SendData: 70 delete
"Trash/test10/"

248[6814c00]: 8103800:imap.kzone.ch:S-Trash/test10:CreateNewLineFromSocket:
70 NO Invalid mailbox name: Trash/test10/


I can confirm that dovecot cannot delete a folder if the name is ended
with a slash.

b list "Trash/x" *
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Trash/xx"
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Trash/x"
b OK List completed.
c delete "Trash/x"
c OK Delete completed.
d delete "Trash/xx/"
d NO Invalid mailbox name: Trash/xx/

Let me know if that's a Thunderbird bug and I'll open a ticket with
Thunderbird. (But I hope it's a dovecot bug as dovecot bugs actually
get fixed, fast. :-)


$ dovecot -n
# 2.0.rc2: /etc/opt/dovecot/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: SunOS 5.10 i86pc  zfs
first_valid_uid = 100
mail_location = mdbox:/l/dovecot/%u/dbox
passdb {
  driver = pam
}
protocols = imap
service imap-login {
  inet_listener imap {
    port = 0
  }
}
service imap {
  vsz_limit = 1073741824
}
ssl = required
ssl_cert = </etc/opt/dovecot/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem
ssl_key = </etc/opt/dovecot/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
userdb {
  driver = passwd
}
verbose_proctitle = yes


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