[Dovecot] Can't delete sub-folder

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Nov 23 23:02:30 EET 2011


On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 22:33 +0000, pch0317 wrote:
> I use thunderbird 8.0 as a client and dovecot 2.0.9 with imap protocol 
..
> When I try to delete 'parent' folder which contain 'messages only' 
> folder, error message appear: [ALREADYEXISTS] Mailbox has children, 
> delete them first. Ok, so I delete 'message only' folder first and try 
> to delete parent folder, but the same error appear: [ALREADYEXISTS] 
> Mailbox has children, delete them first.
> When I list mailboxes from console I see inside 'parent' folder ".imap" 
> folder. When I delete .imap folder from console and then delete parent 
> folder from thunderbird, parent folder is deleted correctly.

You can reproduce this? I tried with v2.0.16 and it works ok, so I have
probably fixed this since v2.0.9.




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