Matthew Exon wrote:
Yes: interesting effect. When you create a folder with a trailing slash, the created folder is greyed out. You can then create subfolders in the greyed out folders by right clicking on them. I'd be interested to see where this functionality is documented :-/
So your explanation seems right, that I can't delete folders because the Trash folder can't have subfolders. It looks like Thunderbird does have some explicit support for the node/leaf model (the greyed out folder names), but this support is incomplete, because it doesn't recognise that this will make it impossible to delete a folder.
I guess using some other client to delete folders is a solution for that
- but what I really want to do is to enable INBOX and Trash to have subfolders, which must be a server-side thing. Anyone have a suggestion for that?
Well, the solution could be using Maildir instead of mbox as mail storage format. Since the traditional mbox format uses one file per mail folder, and one directory per subfolder, you can't keep both mail and folders in the same folder. (A folder is either a file containing mail or a directory containing other files and directories, but not both).
-- Magnus Holmgren holmgren@lysator.liu.se