Hello

Am 29.07.22 um 10:42 schrieb Pascal Bonny:

Dovecot Version: 2.3.17 (8414c38c5c)

Dear, Some troubles occur while we delete a folder via IMAP ssl command or via a IMAP client (different clients tested).

When we want to delete subfolder we observe following issues.

some examples following:

we created a folder with subfolders x/y/z

<IMAP command create> a02 CREATE x.y.z a02 OK Create completed (0.003 + 0.000 + 0.002 secs). <IMAP command create>

<doveadm mailbox list -u "user@domain.tld"> ====response from dovecot cli==== x x.y x.y.z

then we try to delete the z subfolder of x

<IMAP command delete> a04 DELETE x.y.z a05 OK Delete completed (0.002 + 0.000 + 0.001 secs). <IMAP command delete>

The IMAP console returns success and the dovecot listing is ok

<doveadm mailbox list -u "user@domain.tld"> ====response from dovecot cli ===== x x.y

But dovecot status on x.y returns the folder is not existent

[cut] That is normal IMAP behaviour. With creating x.y.z you really create only folder z and a folder hirarchy x.y, in which you can not store emails (nor have any access).

You have to create x and x.y, in order to get complete folders and subfolders usable for emails and be able to delete them :-)

Kind regards, Christian Mack

Christian Mack Universität Konstanz Kommunikations-, Informations-, Medienzentrum (KIM) Abteilung IT-Dienste Forschung, Lehre, Infrastruktur 78457 Konstanz +49 7531 88-4416