Cannot delete folder

[Rupert Gallagher]

On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 13:58, Rupert Gallagher <ruga at protonmail.com> wrote:

>> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 10:40, Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at inf.h-brs.de> wrote:

>> Thunderbird (or some versions anyway) will display any subscribed folder, regardless if it exists or not.

>>Dovecot fails to both delete or rename non-existant folders.

>> Checkout the local file "subscriptions" in your mailbox storage. (Close any mail client before).

>More explicitly, there are three possible actions here:

> - the postmaster edits a user's subscription file in the server :-((

> - the user edits the same file using their own client software (Thunderbird fails on this) :-(

> - Thunderbird is patched to automatically clear the subscription file from non-existent folders :-)

There is a fourth possibility: dovecot is patched to clear the subscription file from non-existent folders. :-))
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