Renaming directories with subdirectories over IMAP

[Darren Pilgrim]

On 12/9/2014 6:08 PM, Зинин Дмитрий Андреевич wrote:

> I¹ve a problem with renaming directories with subdirectories.
>
> In root directory I create directory named ³lvl1² with subdirectory ³lvl2²
>
> When I rename directory lvl1 to lvl1-new I get:
> 1. /lvl1-new with subdir lvl2 but I can use only /lvl1-new and not
> /lvl1-new/lvl2
> 2. /lvl1 with subdir lvl2 but I can use only /lvl1/lvl2 and not /lvl1
>
> Is it a feature or a bug?
>
> If bug is there a fix?

It's a feature of IMAP that you can have folders with missing parents.

It's a bug of your mail client that it isn't recursively renaming folders.