Re: [Dovecot] dovecot refuses to remove folders

On 01/07/2010 06:54 PM Harald Dunkel wrote:

Hi folks,

I've got a problem between Thunderbird 3.0 and Dovecot imapd version 1.2.9. Configuration: … Please note the "LAYOUT=fs" and "seperator: /". AFAICS Dovecot refuses to remove a folder with '/' inside or at the end.

Sample session (extracted from Thunderbird log file):

5 list "" "Trash/*"

• LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "Trash/"
• LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Trash/subfolder2delete" 5 OK List completed. 6 list "" "Trash/subfolder2delete/*"
• LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Trash/subfolder2delete/" 6 OK List completed. 7 delete "Trash/subfolder2delete/" 7 NO [CANNOT] Invalid mailbox name

I was pretty sure that this is a bug in Thunderbird, so I had created https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537626 . Unfortunately the Thunderbird developers are not convinced.

Maybe somebody on this list can comment on this?

This problem is well known. See http://wiki.dovecot.org/Clients#Thunderbird, there is also a link to a bug report.

Regards, Pascal

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