Can't recursively delete mailboxes

[Timo Sirainen]

On 17 Aug 2017, at 9.31, Murray T. | Dreamscape <murray.t at dreamscapenetworks.com> wrote:
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> doveadm mailbox delete -u denise at lifelinetechnique.com.au <mailto:denise at lifelinetechnique.com.au> -r -s inbox
> doveadm(denise at lifelinetechnique.com.au <mailto:denise at lifelinetechnique.com.au>): Error: Can't delete mailbox inbox: INBOX can't be deleted.

I guess you're using Maildir format? With that INBOX can't be deleted, because the Maildir root directory is the INBOX directly. With other mailbox formats it would work. And I think if you used mail_location = ...:INBOX=~/Maildir/INBOX or something like that, it would also work.